Here’s another weekly online activity to try that we tag as monday-connect Something to try or explore! WikiWhiz is a daily puzzle designed somewhat Wordle style that has you guess the names of Wikipedia Articles based upon clues.
As described in an Wikimedia Diff post Can you guess today’s Wikipedia article in seven clues?
Every day at midnight UTC, a new Wikipedia article goes into hiding. Your job is to find it.
WikiWhiz is a free daily guessing game I built on top of English Wikipedia and other sister projects. If you’ve played Wordle, the rhythm will feel familiar: one puzzle a day, same for everyone, and a result you can share with friends. The difference is the answer. Instead of a five-letter word, it is a Wikipedia article, and the clues come from the knowledge our communities have spent more than two decades building.
Just try guessing or asklng for more clues (no looking up!), If you log into with a Wikipedia account, it keeps track of your scores. Whether you think the game is great or not is less important is that its completely built from different parts of the Wikimedia ecosystem:
The clues come from all over our projects, not just from Wikipedia:
- a freely licensed image from Wikimedia Commons
- a structured fact from Wikidata, such as a date of birth or a country
- an etymology from Wiktionary
- an excerpt from Wikisource or a travel fact from Wikivoyage
- “behind the scenes” numbers: how many language editions cover the topic, how many people have edited it, or the year the article was created
The game runs on Toolforge, and measures link distances using the Wiki Replicas, read-only copies of the wiki databases
Play today, tomorrow, every day. As suggested, its a great way to introduce people to Wikipedia beyond just a link to an artlicle and could also be a great intro activity for a wikipedia editing workshop.
Okay, I got today’s WikiWhiz challenge in 2 clues, how did you do?
