3 Wikipedia Games you want to play

Wikipedia does not need any introduction and it is well known to everyone, as it is one of the places where everyone lands on to find the information. Apart from just browsing and digging through the information using Wikipedia, have you ever thought of what else can be done there? Wouldnt it be great if you could gain knowledge having fun, using Wikipedia? If your answer is yes, then this article will let you know about 3 Wikipedia games you must play, which are entirely based on Wikipedia articles.

Wikipedia Games list

There may be many games online, but playing a game which involves Wikipedia articles entirely is somewhat exciting and interesting. Have a look at these Wikipedia games which you can play using Wikipedia articles.

WikiAata

WikiAata is a guessing game and it involves little bit of puzzle. It has simple rules and the game is all about dealing with the Wikipedia articles. You will be given starting and the ending article and you need to start from the first article and reach the last or destination article using the hyperlinks of the first article. You can view the related Wikipedia articles as tabs.

Just tap on the tabs and look at the related Wikipedia articles. Click on the hyperlinks and reach the last article which is under the last tab. You will be given certain number of clicks to reach the destination Wikipedia article. Before, starting the game, you need to sign in to your Google Account. Later, click on Start Playing button and the game starts. Points are based on how quickly you complete the game.

Play it wisely and get your name on the leader board. Once you reach the last article (I mean, you won the game), you can rate the puzzle. You can skip the puzzle anytime, if you do not want to play the current puzzle.

Catfishing

Catfishing is the one that was in existence from almost 10 years. It is purely based on how good you can guess the article. You are given some clues from a Wikipedia article and you need to think a loud to guess the subject. You are only given some topics from that related Wikipedia article and you need to guess the respective article.

Once you got the article, click on Reveal answer blue colored link and it shows the right answer. If it is same as you thought, then click on I got it, else click on I didn’t get it. Based on the number of correct answers you get, your score will be decided. Scoring is entirely depends on how honest you are. You can even search for articles you want in order to guess the answer.

WikiMaze

WikiMaze is games which looks similar to playing a quiz. It asks question with some answers and only 2 attempts to get that question right. If you get it right, it takes you some maze and you need to move forward to backward.

I just came across this game recently and even I was trying hard to understand it completely. As of now, I came to understand that, we need to complete the maze by getting all the answers right. If you did not get the right answer in the given attempts, it shows you the correct answer and can visit that respective Wikipedia article.

It also allows you to edit that Wikipedia page, if you have found something wrong. Based on the answers you get correctly, your score is decided.

These are some of the best Wikipedia games I came across and want to share with you. Gaining knowledge along with fun is a great way to learn. If you aware of any such funny and useful things to do with Wikipedia, please do share with us through comments.

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Cloudberry Explorer for Google Storage Review

Cloud is the word. Most of us are using it knowingly or unknowingly. Maybe some of you already have a desktop SkyDrive sync software or a Google Drive software. The problem with these sync software is that they choose the time to upload the documents and files. With Cloudberry, things change. You just have to drag and drop a file from one window to another to upload the files. This review of Cloudberry Explorer for Google Storage checks out how efficient that software is.

Cloudberry download & installation

The download part was a bit tedious. That’s because my Avast antivirus kept giving a message that the software I was downloading was a malware. It wouldn’t let me download the file. But since Cloudberry comes from a reputed brand, I assumed it was a false positive turned off my antivirus for a while. That done, download and the installation on my Windows PC was easier than expected. I did run an antimalware test on downloaded file and no threats were detected. I wrote about the antivirus warning to its customer care about this malware warning, and will update the post if I receive ant response from them.

There were also no crapware that generally accompanies freeware. Cloudberry comes in two versions – freeware and paid. We are reviewing the free version of Cloudberry.

Cloudberry Explorer for Google Cloud

Once installed, you can see the main window divided into two Explorer type windows. By default both will be your local storage. You will have to change the source of one of the Windows to Google cloud such as Google Drive or Google Nearline before you can upload or download files from the cloud.

But before you can select the source Google cloud, you have to add it to the Cloudberry. This, you can do from File menu > Google Cloud Storage. Since the version is specific to Google cloud, you can only add Google cloud offerings. There is a separate tab for Google Drive.

When you opt to add a Google cloud service to Cloudberry, you will have to sign up with your Google login credentials. For example, clicking on New Account will open up a login dialog where you enter your login credentials for the Drive you wish to add to Cloudberry. You can add more than one accounts to the system. For details about Google cloud, you can visit cloud.google.com.

That done, working with Cloudberry is a cheese. You can change the source of one of the windows to Google cloud – it could be Google Drive, Google Nearline, or any other type of Google cloud offering. All you need to do is to transfer files just like you move or copy files from one Windows File Explorer window to another Windows Explorer window. You can drag a file from local file to the Explorer window showing Google Drive to upload the file to Google Drive. To download a file, select a file from the Google cloud window and drag it to the destination folder in the local storage window in the Cloudberry Explorer.

The speed of transfer is good. It hardly took four minutes to upload approximately 600MB of data from local computer to Drive on a 16 Mbps connection. Thus, Cloudberry offers a better speed than the manual upload to Drive.

If you can remember, Google Drive can be accessed via web, and you have an upload option present. You use that option to upload files and folders. The speed of upload is slow in this case as compared to Cloudberry explorer. Plus, I did not have to open a web browser and log into my Google Drive.

Additional Features of Cloudberry

Other than easy and faster transfer of files, you can search for files with the free version of Cloudberry. You can delete the files using right click in the window showing contents of Google Cloud. There is an encryption facility available only to Pro users. The free version will not provide encryption to uploaded files and it is not clear if there is any encryption during transfer of files.

Summary

Cloudberry Explorer for Google Cloud is meant for mass transfer of data. That is, though you can transfer smaller files, it works better for bigger folders containing tons of data. The technique is HTTP but speed is good compared to manual searching and downloading or uploading data. Uploading of data is faster than you get using manual upload features of Google Drive. I would recommend it if you deal with good amount of data – if you transfer (upload and download) plenty of files every day. If you are using other Google services, such as the Nearline or Google Cloud, Cloudberry is a must have tool because – as I said – it works much better when working with volumes of data compared to manual upload/download using browser.

You can download Cloudberry Explorer for Google Cloud from its home page.

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What is Cloud Computing ?

What it is ? why it is? and am I in Cloud Computing?. My answer it – Yes if you are working with internet technology, You are related with cloud computing. While you are working on your personal computer with the internet connection, You are connected with the cloud networks.

In a cloud computing the resources of hardware and networking are shared over the internet. A company providing the services of cloud computing (like: Amazon, IBM) provides the network infrastructure world wide, where users share resources with lower cost. In cloud computing we don’t need to setup own server rooms, hardware, etc individually. We just use them through web browser even we don’t know where the servers situated.

For an example of Amazon cloud services. We just Login to our AWS management console through web browser and can create, manage server instances, s3 and many other services. It’s not to be bad to say a Single window management for all your network services.

Services of Cloud Computing ?

Cloud computing services are divided into three categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (Saas).

Benefits cloud computing ?

1. Low cost - Mostly cloud services are available with cheaper costs due to its resource sharing. Like cloud services providers take a full advantages of virtualization.

2. Easy to Manage - Cloud services are easy to manage, we don’t need to work physically with the devices.

3. Flexibility & Scalability - As much as my experience with cloud computing, It’s is very flexible, We can create servers within minutes. We can use or start any services with the few clicks only. The most impotent feature is Scalability. If our organization grows, we can add more service of upgrade existing services within a minute.

4. Pay-Per-Use Services - Most of cloud services providers offers to Pay-Per-Use services. it means there are no boundation of billing date time. Like if we started any server for 1 hours only, we need to pay for 1 hour only.

Deployment Models of Cloud Computing –

Cloud Computing mainly has 4 deployment models with there own working process and accessibilities.

1. Public
2. Private
3. Hybrid
4. Community

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