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((short description|Game of traversing Wikipedia pages))
'''Wikiracing''' is a game in which players compete to navigate from one [[Wikipedia]] page to another using only [[internal links]].<ref>((cite news |first=Aubrey |last=Whelan |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/living/20100721__Wikiracing__picking_up_speed_among_college_students.html |title='Wikiracing' picking up speed among college students |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=2010-07-21))</ref><ref>((cite news |first=Ben |last=Jones |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2010/07/11/Latest-game-for-bored-students-Wikiracing/stories/201007110177 |title=Latest game for bored students? Wikiracing |work=[[Star Tribune]] |date=2010-06-20))</ref><ref>((cite news |first=Ariel |last=Doctoroff |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/want-to-waste-an-hour-or_n_654619.html |title=Want To Waste An Hour (Or Three)? Go On A Wikirace |work=[[Huffington Post]] |date=2010-07-22))</ref><ref>Colin Hepke (2008). [http://spider.eecs.umich.edu/tbp/Newsletters/F08/F08Second_Actives.pdf "On Your Mark, Get Set, Wikipedia"!] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403222940/http://spider.eecs.umich.edu/tbp/Newsletters/F08/F08Second_Actives.pdf |date=2012-04-03 )) Cornerstone 2(3), 8.</ref><ref>((cite news |first=Ben |last=Jones |url=http://www.ecollegetimes.com/music/students-glued-to-computers-turn-wikipedia-into-a-game-1.2494012#.TsNA68NFuso |title=Students glued to computers turn Wikipedia into a game |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718211900/http://www.ecollegetimes.com/music/students-glued-to-computers-turn-wikipedia-into-a-game-1.2494012#.TsNA68NFuso |archive-date=2012-07-18 |work=[[College Times]] |date=2010-07-08))</ref> It has many different variations and names, including '''The Wikipedia Game''', '''Wikipedia Maze''', '''Wikispeedia''', '''Wikiwars''', '''Wikipedia Ball''', '''Litner Ball''', '''Wikipedia Racing''', and '''Wikipedia Speedrunning'''.<ref>Stefan Thaler, Katharina Siorpaes, Elena Simperl and Christian Hofe (2011). [http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/fileadmin/documents/technical_report/A-survey-on-games-for-knowledge-acquisition.pdf "A Survey on Games for Knowledge Acquisition".] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525053548/http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/fileadmin/documents/technical_report/A-survey-on-games-for-knowledge-acquisition.pdf |date=25 May 2012 )) ''[[Semantic Technology Institute International]]''. pgs 14-17.</ref> External websites have been created to facilitate the game.<ref>((cite news |first=John |last=Walker |url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/10/searching-for-fun-wikipedia-game/ |title=Searching For Fun: Wikipedia Game |work=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]] |date=2010-06-10))</ref>

''[[The Seattle Times]]'' has recommended it as a good educational pastime for children<ref>((cite news |first=Heidi |last=Stevens |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/zero-in-on-your-childs-lack-of-focus/ |title=Zero in on your child's lack of focus" |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=2011-08-14))</ref> and the ''Larchmont Gazette'' has said, "While I don't know any teenagers who would curl up with an encyclopedia for a good read, I hear that a lot are reading it in the process of playing the Wikipedia Game".<ref>((cite news |first=Jacqueline Hornor |last=Plumez |url=http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2008/careerdoctor/20080925careerdoccteen.html |title=The Career Doctor |work=Larchmont Gazette |date=2008-09-25 |access-date=16 November 2011 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093833/http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2008/careerdoctor/20080925careerdoccteen.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

The Amazing Wiki Race has been an event at the [[TechOlympics]].<ref>Denise Smith Amos. "500 teens converge for TechOlympics". ''[[Cincinnati Enquirer]]'', 3/5/2010</ref>

The average number of links separating any English-language Wikipedia page from the [[United Kingdom]] page is 3.67. Thus, it has been occasionally banned in the game. Other common rules such as not using the [[United States]] page increase the game's difficulty.<ref>((cite news |first=Brock |last=Read |url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/6-degrees-of-wikipedia/3973 |title=6 Degrees of Wikipedia |work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |date=2008-05-28))</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Six degrees of separation]]
* [[Crowdsourcing]]
* [[Gamification]]
* [[Virtual volunteering]]
* [[Volunteer computing]]
* [[Wikipedia community]]

== References ==
((reflist))

== External links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Wikirace|Wikipedia's Wikirace project page]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wiki Ladders|Wikipedia's Wiki Ladders project page]]
* ((cite web | last=Harrison | first=Stephen | title=The Art of Wikiracing | website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date=September 26, 2023 | url=https://slate.com/technology/2023/09/wikiracing-wikipedia-champions.html | access-date=September 27, 2023))

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