# How Fast are you in Wikipedia Running? Try Wikipedia Speedruns
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337
**Category:** The Plaza
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337 "2022-11-01T19:18:43Z")
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/1 "2022-11-01T19:18:43Z")
Yes, obviously Wikipedia is amazing as perhaps the world’s largest/vastest open education resource. There is so much more to it than the articles, and it’s entire infrastructure is used in creative, and sometimes fun ways.
Previously we shared [Six Degrees of Wikipedia](https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/), providing a game-like experience meant to appreciate its interconnectedness in trying to find articles that are more than six links apart.
> [@Six Degrees of Wikipedia-- can you get to 6?](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/six-degrees-of-wikipedia-can-you-get-to-6/3321):
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> I have to credit an accidental browsing of a session ideas for [OERcamp.global](http://OERcamp.global/) (you really should look into participating in this 48 hour online unconference on OER). I was curious when I saw mention of [https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/](https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/) … and curiosity to me calls for a link click. The idea is to enter names for two terms (it autosuggests as you type in the box) for WikiPedia articles that you would think are rather far apart, and the site finds the shortest number of hyperlink traverses …
I found another such thing that challenges you to connect disparate Wikipedia articles. [Wikipedia Speedruns](https://wikispeedruns.com/) ask you, as quickly as possible, to get from one article to another only by following links.
> The rules of this game are simple. You’ll be given a starting Wikipedia article and an ending Wikipedia article. Your goal is to navigate from the starting article to the ending article using only the article links.
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> Some other things to keep in mind:
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> - Any link (outside the navigation bar at the top) is fair game.
> - You can’t use the browser find tool.
> - Reloading the page or clicking the browser back button will end your run.
It’s quite challenging. [Walking through the tutorial](https://wikispeedruns.com/play/tutorial) indicates you need a strategy to run to general topics and then get more specific.
My first run was to get from [Middle Ages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages) to [Adverb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb) ([see how results can be shared](https://wikispeedruns.com/finish?run_id=310295&played=true))
via a link path of
> Middle Ages,Cameo (carving),Cameo appearance,Oxford English Dictionary,English phrasal verbs,Traditional grammar,Grammar,Subject–verb–object word order,Adjective,Linguistics,Syntax,Categorial grammar,Semantic ambiguity,Word,Reflexive verb,Verb,Adverb
Are you game to run across Wikipedia? You need a Wikipedia account to login, and you can try the ones at the [main Wikipedia Speed Runs](https://wikispeedruns.com/), and test your running shoes.
For fun, I set up a “private lobby” I will share access to here in OEG Connect
> Join my Wikispeedruns lobby
> [https://wikispeedruns.com/lobby/11419](https://wikispeedruns.com/lobby/11419)
> Passcode: 185932
Where the first challenge asks you to get from a specific Creative Commons license to a Canadian past time 😉
Run, Wiki, Run!
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### Author:  [@Enkerli](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Enkerli)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/2 "2022-11-01T19:27:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Enkerli](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Enkerli)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/3 "2022-11-01T19:30:31Z")
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### Author:  [@Enkerli](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Enkerli)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/4 "2022-11-01T19:33:31Z")
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### Author:  [@OEGconnect](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/OEGconnect)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/5 "2022-11-02T03:12:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Mario](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Mario)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/how-fast-are-you-in-wikipedia-running-try-wikipedia-speedruns/4337/6 "2022-11-02T14:51:57Z")
🤯 This can be very challenging. I chose an easy path, I think, but going random is the pro level.
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[https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick\_play?prompt\_start=Streaming%20media&prompt\_end=Paris](https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick_play?prompt_start=Streaming%20media&prompt_end=Paris)
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