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blahblahblah — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:41:32 -0800

Fun with Wikipedia. Try Catfishing, where you guess the article based on the often idiosyncratic Wikipedia categories to which it has been assigned. The related Wiki'd Game involves guessing a topic based on the first seven Wikipedia internal links to it. Or find the shortest path between two concepts (try using the fascinating Omipelagos, which does so automatically) or race to get from one topic to another. Most recently, Something Awful developed the concept of Wikigroaning. [A few challenges inside]

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:42:19 -0800

Your easiest challenge is a Wik'id game. Which FPP topic posted about in the last 24 hours is described with the following first (I actually removed one, because it was too obvious) seven "what links here" Wikipedia links: Atlas Shrugged, Antipope John XXIII, Battle, Black Death, Bermuda Triangle, Crime, History of Comoros? Slightly harder is this Catfishing: Albanian cuisine, Armenian cuisine, Romanian cuisine, Greek desserts, Bosnian cuisine, Bulgarian cuisine, Cuisine of the Republic of Macedonia, Cypriot cuisine, Confectionery, and Turkish cuisine. Or try this one: USA-centric,Weather hazards, Space plasmas, Limited geographic scope A final challenge is this Wiki'd Game (again, the first seven "what links here" minus the obvious ones): Windex, Garfield, DnL, 2000s fads and trends in North America, Sev, Mountain Dew, Time and Time Again. Feel free to post your own.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:52:03 -0800

Omipelagos is cool and very interesting. It's like that show Connections but without James Burke.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:53:42 -0800

This show, that is.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:59:41 -0800

Catfishing is no longer a fish-pole and a creek (pronounced crick), wtf? How did it all get so complicated?

By: painquale

painquale — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:01:01 -0800

That wikigroaning link really made me laugh.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:03:15 -0800

Someone should do one of those map graping analysis of the network of Wikipedia references.

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:07:38 -0800

The Simpsons will be the most highly-connected node.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:18:30 -0800

Wikigroaning really made me despair for our species.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:38:58 -0800

Ethereal Bligh: Wikiviz. There are others, though.

By: painquale

painquale — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:50:56 -0800

Yeah, The Simpsons definitely wins. Here's a list of all the articles that link to The Simpsons. There's nothing more exasperating than the gratuitous Simpsons or Star Trek reference. Do the pages for Augustine of Hippo and Phrenology really need to link to the Simpsons? Wikigroaning is lots of fun! Pythons Monty Python Cultural Impact of the Falklands War Cultural Impact of Wonder Woman Ballet Dance Dance Revolution

By: growabrain

growabrain — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:14:51 -0800

wikigroaning is a scream: Vegetable Vegeta...

By: zamboni

zamboni — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:17:05 -0800

This resource written by nerds sure has a lot of detail on nerdy things. I am shocked and stunned.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:35:38 -0800

growabrain: my favorite thing about that vegetable entry is the Venn diagram that makes up much of the articles content, though the Vegeta article seems remarkably coherently written.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:44:20 -0800

Doomsday Book Doomsday (comics) Doom

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:48:56 -0800

Magnetism Magnet Magneto (comics)

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:15:46 -0800

No guesses to my questions?

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:28:33 -0800

Yeah, The Simpsons definitely wins. I thought I was just snarking.

By: yohko

yohko — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:19:40 -0800

A final challenge is this Wiki'd Game (again, the first seven "what links here" minus the obvious ones): Windex, Garfield, DnL, 2000s fads and trends in North America, Sev, Mountain Dew, Time and Time Again. Clever, blahblahblah.

By: jtron

jtron — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:38:54 -0800

Albanian cuisine, Armenian cuisine, Romanian cuisine, Greek desserts, Bosnian cuisine, Bulgarian cuisine, Cuisine of the Republic of Macedonia, Cypriot cuisine, Confectionery, and Turkish cuisine. Turkish Delight?

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:30:34 -0800

jtron got one. yohko almost certainly got one.

By: paul_smatatoes

paul_smatatoes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:45:39 -0800

wiki'd game was eventually renamed al capone banjo and then no more, because it was too easy to cheat by finding the least-musical reference and work your way back from any musical links it contained.

By: paul_smatatoes

paul_smatatoes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:57:30 -0800

(i should probably mention that it was strictly musical at stereogum)

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:14:30 -0800

Wikigroaning is damn funny. Thanks for pointing me to this.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:49:26 -0800

Okay, I posted the answers in the Dolphins vs. Unicorns thread. Cause why not?

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:32:26 -0800

blahblahblah, I think the solution to your catfishing question is baklava.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:42:44 -0800

World World of Warcraft Wikigroaning is fantastic. I used to play a similar game comparing the pages of Canadian Prime Ministers to Transformers. Wilfred Laurier is on Canada's $5 bill, and Wikipedia has less to say about him than Grimlock. Way less.

By: yohko

yohko — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:05:13 -0800

yohko almost certainly got one. Well, I didn't want to be calling anybody bad names.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:37:49 -0800

United States of America Captain America Filter (water) Metafilter

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:23:02 -0800

(Wow, I'm an amazing trifecta of dense, slow and thread-illiterate this evening.)

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:32:16 -0800

Nice!

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:14:35 -0800

OK, well here's a good Wikigroaner: Robert Burton (scholar) (1577-1640), English scholar and cleric, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton (statesman) (1747-1825), North Carolina delegate to Continental Congress Robert Burton (speedcuber) (born 1985), American speedcuber