You and the other players are sent to a random page. Each of you gets five minutes or less to scour the page. Then you are all sent to another page where the game starts asking questions. The person with the most correct answers wins. This would also be a good way to check whether the Wikipedia page has enough information and whether the information is easy to find.

Ideas:

• Article Geoguesser slowly reveal facts or pictures, guess the article
• Explore all the pictures of a country (i.e. for Turkey, explore all the photos that are in the articles for Istanbul, Ankara, etc)
• Connections-style game with Wikitionary or Article names (category connections?)
• Matching game: what happened at the same time in different places (would be fun to filter so one side is all related to your country)
• 6th degree of connections - for famous people on Wikipedia, guess/match the 6 or fewer connections between them (links)
• Matching game - which two people could have possibly met each other? (Match the two people who were alive during the same dates)
• Integrate with an existing educational game - show Kahoot games within the app? https://create.kahoot.it/channel/6e96e9b4-121f-4cdd-bf3f-de8bfa5f6271

A few ideas myself, @LucasWerkmeister, and @Kristbaum discussed:

• Pixelated image guessing game, where an image from Commons is shown with a pixelated overlay. The player has to guess what the image is of (this can utilize depicts statements on Commons). As time passes, the image becomes less pixelated, and the player scores less points the later they guess correctly.
  • To ensure quality and accuracy of depicts statements, the game can be limited to featured images on Commons, or pull from the winners of campaigns like Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
  • See https://www.faceguesser.com/, which is an existing online game that shows the player a pixelated image of a celebrity from Commons to guess.
• GeoGuesser powered by Wikidata. This already exists at https://guessr.blinry.org/ by @blinry and could work well in a mobile app.
• Also mentioned WikiAsteroids (https://asteroids.wiki/), a game I developed earlier this year (see Diff post). It's the classic Asteroids arcade game, but powered by Wikipedia edits (edit = new asteroid, new user = powerup, new article = 1up). Classic arcade games with a Wikipedia-twist have a nice nostalgia to them and could be popular.

Kristbaum - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Como

• Gives folks a way to easily create games from a CSV
• Consumption-based playing
• Art describer is the most used - way to allow humans to check AI descriptions

https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/

• Magnus Manske

T165167: building more games using Wikidata's data

Everything is connected - http://eicgame.toolforge.org/
German only - https://stadt-land-wikidata.netlify.app/#/ (Similar to Scattegories)
WikiTrivia with Wikidata https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

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