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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How to create an eBook from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is usually the first place we visit to know about anything and to collect information. We often bookmark particular Wikipedia pages for further reading. There are many links within each page which we are interested in and we may need to visit them again and again. Instead of bookmarking those pages, now you can create an eBook by collecting all required Wikipedia pages as PDF. You can reorder the pages and can categorize them under single chapter as you want. Let us see steps to be followed to create an eBook from Wikipedia.

Create an eBook from Wikipedia

First, visit the Wikipedia page which you are interested in and want to add to eBook. On the left side, click on “Create a book” link under “Print/export” section.

The Book Creator page opens up and shows how to use book creator and steps to create eBook from Wikipedia. Let us see, one by one to create eBook. Click on the “Start book creator” button.

You will be taken back to the previous page and now, you can see the Book Creator section got added on the top. Now, you can add pages to your eBook. There are two ways to add pages to eBook. One way is to add current Wikipedia page or pages which are present in this current page as links. In order to add current page to your eBook, click on “Add this page to your book” link. This page gets added to your eBook.

In order to add Linked Wiki page to your eBook, hover your mouse on the link and you will be shown “Add linked wiki page to your book”. Click on this link and this page is also added to your eBook.

Apart from you selecting individual Wikipedia pages, there is an option to see pages which are suitable to your topic. Click on the “Suggested Pages” link and it shows the linked Wiki pages which are suitable for your eBook.

In order to add suggested Wiki pages to your eBook, click on the green colored plus button present beside the linked page. This gives the message as page has been added to your book and you can even undo the action to remove the added page from eBook.

These are some simple steps to add pages to your eBook. Now, you can manage your eBook by reordering the added pages, creating chapters and reordering them and many more like that. So, let us see the way to manage created eBook.

Manage your eBook

The number of pages added will be shown beside Show book. As we have added 5 pages for now, it shows 5 pages beside Show book link. Now, in order to manage your book, click on “Show pages” link and it opens “Manage your book” section.

You can give Title, Subtitle, columns and more from the available options. You can place all these pages to a single chapter. In order to create a chapter, click on “Create Chapter” link and give the name of the chapter in the popupwindow and click “Ok”. Created chapter will be added at last by default.

In order to have all these contents under this created chapter, drag it to the top of these contents. You can even reorder the contents or added Wiki pages by dragging and dropping them as shown,

You can rename the chapter by clicking on “Rename” link. If you want to remove any page or chapter from the eBook, you can click on the trash icon available beside every page. To view the page, click on the icon with lines available beside the page.

If everything is ready, click on the “Download as PDF” button.

It starts generating the eBook and it takes time based on number of pages you have created.

Once everything is done, it shows the “Download the file” file. Click on it or right-click on the link and choose “Save link as”. This downloads the created eBook in PDF format to your local system.

Open your created eBook and see that all pages are under the created Chapter. Chapter and contents are also in the order we specified while creating the eBook.

You can even get the printed version of the created eBook from Pedigrees. On what topic you have created eBook from Wikipedia? If you have anything to add, please do share with us through comments.

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