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Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure. Come on a journey full of real skills, tips, helpers, rewards, and support. As part of the adventure, you will send some messages to your own Wikipedia user and user talk pages automatically. This tour only uses the source editor.
- Quantitative Analysis
- Qualitative Analysis
- In Their Own Words
We analyzed 3 groups of 165 editors each in November/December 2013. All were selected from Snuggle's desirability algorithmas likely good-faith contributors. 10,000 editors were invited to play using a mass talk page message invitation. 1. Control group A was not invited to play 2. Control group B was invited but did not play 3. TWA Player group wa...
We surveyed the 600 editors who at least made it to the first stage of mission 1. We sent these editors talk page invitations to a Qualtrics survey using EdwardsBot. 42 editors responded between December 23rd and January 4th. Do you agree or disagree with these statements about The Wikipedia Adventure?
What they liked
1. Editors found TWA interactive, educational, friendly and usable, gamified, uniquely and well-designed, reassuring... 1. "As always with new software, you need to be walked through the features: the game worked well in this context and was useful. Covering all (most) areas is the best bit." 2. "The interactivenessof The Wikipedia Adventure was an easier and better way to learn the basics of Wikipedia versus trying to run around to different pages and just reading about it." 3. "Well done ba...
What they didn't like
1. A minority of players found the game too silly for their taste, more appropriate for youth, or just plain insulting 1. "It was kind of cheesybut kept my attention." 2. "A little too sillyfor my liking, but it's probably great for young editors." 3. "Too long-winded and geeky" 4. "The badges are kinda neutralbut the whole thing works very well." 5. "The forced badgesI had to edit out of my talk page were a bit annoying." 6. "I disliked the way that participants are addressed, as if imbecile...
What they wanted more of
1. Many asked for advanced levels that focus on more specific and sophisticated skills 1. "I wish there would have been a missions #8, #9 and #10 involving the use of templates, inserting into edits and how to learn and distinguish when to use which. Other elements that would be handy, maybe in an advance mission, would be: tables, logic, advanced programming, advanced templates and formatting." 2. "May be worth including some information about the policy regarding not editing on behalf of an...
Portal; Interstellar Lounge; Pages and messages There are 36 message in the game. Userpage: 15, user subpage:7, user subpage talk: 5, user talk: 1, user talk subpage: 8
Aug 15, 2020 · The Wikipedia Adventure is an interactive guided tour / tutorial / learning game. It teaches new Wikipedia contributors basic editing, cooperation and collaboration skills. It introduces project mechanics, philosophy and policy. The setting is an interstellar mission to outer space. The focus is a hypothetical article about Earth.
Jul 2, 2017 · It converts Wikipedia into, well, a text adventure, complete with environmental descriptions and images drawn from Jimmy Wales' ambitious human-history database. To explore, say, Oxford, as I'm...
Jul 2, 2017 · Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this "game" now exists, and it's thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is...
Jun 30, 2017 · By Freia Lobo on June 30, 2017. Credit: Sierakowski/REX/Shutterstock. Reading Wikipedia just got a whole lot more fun. A new game called "Wikipedia: The text adventure" helps you navigate...
