WikiRaces 🏎️ 🏁

Authors

Christopher Cahill && Ryan Leslie && Quinn Miller

What's a Wiki Race?

A Wikipedia race "is a race between any number of participants, using links to travel from one Wikipedia page to another. The first person to reach the destination page, or the person that reaches the destination using the fewest links, wins the race. Intermediary pages may also be required."

-wikipedia (Wikipeidia Wikirace article)

Current Status

Application creates a game object with a randomly generated 'start' article and 'end' article with a unique game ID and username (email address) of player. Game object is pushed to firebase and as user clicks on links in the 'navigation' pane the game object 'article history' array is updated, so as to track the user's progress. A simple scoring system has been implemented, so that a player begins with 100 points, and each subsequent click subtracts a point from the score.

Next Steps

• Add timed game type
• Allow for competitive 'session' play against another opponent
• Add 'history' component to see all of a logged-in player's games
• Add 'current games' component to see other games being played

Some interesting sites and learning materials we discovered along the way

Here's an example API call we used to test out our API call

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=3747

Here are some links to useful wikipedia resources about their API

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Errors_and_warnings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=help&recursivesubmodules=1

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tutorial

https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/

Really interesting project which shows all wikipedia edits, posts, deletions, etc. in real time and then adds music

http://listen.hatnote.com/

Wikipedia API query parameters diagram