Contributing to Wiki can involve short, fun activities and we have our own WikiGames site to help. Learning through playAt the University of Edinburgh we have pulled together some short, fun activities that anyone can do as part of teaching and learning. See Wiki Games for more information.Wiki RaceWiki Race challenges players to get from one article to another in the shortest time using only links within pages. This game explores how different types of Wikipedia articles are structured and how Wikipedia links together. For example, get from 'Sloth' to 'Joseph Black' in four clicks.Rules Use only the body of the text (no Categories).You can use Back and Ctrl + F (to find text on a page).No editing!Further resourcesWiki Race on Wiki Games.WikiWars Championship - video on YouTube.Citation Hunt Citation Hunt is a neat tool that helps to find missing citations on Wikipedia. You can then search for an appropriate source to use to update the article.How many citations can you fix in 10 minutes?Login to Wikipedia.Make sure you have the Visual Editor enabled.Click Preferences in the menu at the top right of the screen.Select the Editing tabIn the Editor section, uncheck Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta.In Editing Mode, choose Show me both editor tabs.Go to Citation Hunt.Find a snippet that needs a citation (you can restrict the search to specific categories – type into the box under the buttons) and click I’ve got this! to open the Wikipedia page.Do some searching on the web until you find a good quality, reliable source. Remember – no fake news!Edit the Wikipedia article and click the cite button to insert a reference at the appropriate point in the article, replacing the [citation needed] text.Save the article.Go back to Citation Hunt and find another article to fix!Further resourcesCitation Hunt on Wiki https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-games/GamesThe Primary Sources tool Try the Wikidata Game – Primary Sources. Check if a third party source can be used a reference on a Wikidata item by clicking yes or no.Build a visually dynamic timelines of everything in minutesArticles in Wikipedia can contain quite a bit of structured information. For example, articles typically belong to one or more categories and many pages such as biographies or world events will contain date information.Take a look at David Bowie’s biography page as an example.In the Infobox on the right hand side of the page are a number of key pieces of date information, and if you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a large number of categories.Histropedia is a tool that builds interactive timelines using this information. For example, have a look at a timeline of women “badder than Taylor Swift“.Open HistropediaClick Start Exploring TimelinesType David Bowie into the search box at the topSelect David Bowie filmography and Histropedia will build a timelineType David Bowie into the search box again, and choose David Bowie albumsClick Merge – now you have two timelines together. © Ewan McAndrew and Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. This article was published on 2024-10-08