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Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

11 points by justinbach 16y ago

carbocation 16y ago
Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-orig.jpg http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-... Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?
- rimantas 16y ago
  4 time of 5 I got some icon :(
  - justinbach 16y ago
    Yeah, I definitely submitted this a bit early. I've added a fair amount of icon detection (no more search icons or books with question marks) and I've overhauled the interface so it's ajaxy and a good bit more fun to play. Thanks for the feedback!
    - carbocation 16y ago
      Much better! I'd still suggest a lower limit on image sizes. I'm seeing icon-sized pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge show up, etc.
TenJack 16y ago
I have been considering using images from wikipedia in a project that is much different than this but I was wondering: is it okay to embed the images so that they load from wikipedia, or would you need to download them and save them to your own server? This might be called inline linking?
kevinburke 16y ago
I tried it three times and twice loaded images that are a part of any Wikipedia page, like the W with the globe in the corner.
- justinbach 16y ago
  Yeah, definitely makes it much less fun. I've added filtering to address this.
gojomo 16y ago
Nice. May want to rule out images that are too common (the search magnifier) or routine/small (nationality flags, though I got most of those right). Also, especially after answering, I'd like to click through to the real article to see the image in context -- so it's be nice to provide that link. It might be interesting to use the same corpus in a different challenge -- for example, five articles and five pictures, match each to the right article.
noibl 16y ago
It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists
- justinbach 16y ago
  That's a great idea. Right now it's using Wikipedia's random article generator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) to drive content, but it would be cool to group by a given category.
tomjen3 16y ago
Interesting, but you need to have the correct appear below the try another link (so it doesn't move when correct fades away). And please filter for icons.

11 points by justinbach 16y ago

Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-orig.jpg http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-... Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?

rimantas 16y ago
4 time of 5 I got some icon :(
- justinbach 16y ago
  Yeah, I definitely submitted this a bit early. I've added a fair amount of icon detection (no more search icons or books with question marks) and I've overhauled the interface so it's ajaxy and a good bit more fun to play. Thanks for the feedback!
  - carbocation 16y ago
    Much better! I'd still suggest a lower limit on image sizes. I'm seeing icon-sized pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge show up, etc.

TenJack 16y ago

I have been considering using images from wikipedia in a project that is much different than this but I was wondering: is it okay to embed the images so that they load from wikipedia, or would you need to download them and save them to your own server? This might be called inline linking?

kevinburke 16y ago

I tried it three times and twice loaded images that are a part of any Wikipedia page, like the W with the globe in the corner.

justinbach 16y ago
Yeah, definitely makes it much less fun. I've added filtering to address this.

gojomo 16y ago

Nice. May want to rule out images that are too common (the search magnifier) or routine/small (nationality flags, though I got most of those right). Also, especially after answering, I'd like to click through to the real article to see the image in context -- so it's be nice to provide that link. It might be interesting to use the same corpus in a different challenge -- for example, five articles and five pictures, match each to the right article.

noibl 16y ago

It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists

justinbach 16y ago
That's a great idea. Right now it's using Wikipedia's random article generator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) to drive content, but it would be cool to group by a given category.

tomjen3 16y ago

Interesting, but you need to have the correct appear below the try another link (so it doesn't move when correct fades away). And please filter for icons.