Talk:Wikipedia/Quizzes

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Fact-checking

Are the formulations correct? Mange01 14:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions for more quiz topics and questions

What wiki terminology is most important to ask questions about? I add some of my own suggestions. Mange01 14:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Suggested quizz

1. Basic wiki terminology
2. How to edit a wiki page
3. Wikipedia policies and guidelines (Partly done)
4. Wikipedia research and criticism (Partly done)
5. Wiki technology

Suggestions for the "Wikipedia policies and guidelines" quiz

In order of importance:

• w:Wikipedia:The_five_pillars_of_Wikipedia: NOT, NPOV, COPYRIGHT, ETIQ, IGNORE
• GFDL and legal aspects
• How to cite wikipedia
• Common templates
• w:Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
• Authorative sources
• The most important Style guidelines: w:wikipedia:Citing sources, Lead section, Article style naming, English dialects, Reference style, Lists
• The most important Behavioural guidelines: *w:Wikipedia:Assume good faith, Self-referencing, conflict of interest, own research, w:Wikipedia:search engine optimization, etc
• w:Wikipedia:Dispute resolution
• Administrator rolls and tools
• Dealing with vandalism and link spam.
• Blocking of users
• Common sense. (Part of Ignore all rules?)
• Definition of Essays, Policies, Guidelines, Help pages, Projects and Template Documentation.
• Other related terms in the Wikipedia glossary

Suggestions for the "Wikipedia research and criticism" quiz

• Wikipedia statistics
• Examples of censorship
• Social science research on Wikis and Wikipedia
• Other related terms in the Wikipedia glossary

Suggestions for a "Wiki technology" quiz

• Web 2.0 and other current web technology trends
• Wiki server software comparisons
• How to install, configure and administrate an own Mediawiki server
• Parameter controlled templates
• Embedded HTML
• Wiki robots and tools
• Mediawiki extensions
• Bugzilla
• State-of-the-art wiki technology research and development
• Other related terms in the Wikipedia glossary

Common misconceptions about Wikipedia

I would like to add some common misconceptions about Wikis and Wikipedia as distraction alternatives in true/false questions. Do you know any such misconceptions, besides the ones mentioned in w:Wikipedia:Press_Kit#Common_misconceptions_about_Wikipedia? Mange01 14:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Comments on the quiz

I think the quiz is a good idea, and has been implemented very well, especially with the automagic marking of responses. I've a couple minor queries regarding the answers to the questions.

• The culinary recipe answer is possibly somewhat misleading. In practice the article would be kept or deleted on the basis of whether the culinary dish was notable. In other words, whether there was significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. If the subject was notable, a rewrite would be expected, but I doubt that deletion of the article would happen in practice.
• The current price comparisons of products existing on the market today information wouldn't appear in a single article, but the information could be moved to the individual product articles. See for example Wikipedia:F-22 Raptor and Wikipedia:Eurofighter Typhoon.

PhilKnight 09:07, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Bugs

For the top half of the quiz, there were five choices at the top, but under them were five circles on the left, and five purple squares on the right. Neither the circles nor the squares lined up with the choices at the top. So it took me a long time to guess whether I should check the circles, the squares, both, or neither.

Also, when I got halfway down the page there was a "submit" button. So I clicked it, expecting the bottom half of the page to be separate. Instead, it marked me wrong for not answering any of the questions on the bottom half. Art LaPella 01:32, 19 June 2009 (UTC)