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Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by carbocation on Friday November 19, 2010 @12:30AM (#1920525)
Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-...

Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?

Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by rimantas on Friday November 19, 2010 @03:45AM (#1920861)
4 time of 5 I got some icon :(
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by justinbach on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:58AM (#1921892)
Yeah, I definitely submitted this a bit early. I've added a fair amount of icon detection (no more search icons or books with question marks) and I've overhauled the interface so it's ajaxy and a good bit more fun to play. Thanks for the feedback!
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by carbocation on Friday November 19, 2010 @01:22PM (#1922211)
Much better!

I'd still suggest a lower limit on image sizes. I'm seeing icon-sized pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge show up, etc.

Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by noibl on Friday November 19, 2010 @03:51AM (#1920873)
It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists

Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by justinbach on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:59AM (#1921901)
That's a great idea. Right now it's using Wikipedia's random article generator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) to drive content, but it would be cool to group by a given category.
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by kevinburke on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:03AM (#1920702)
I tried it three times and twice loaded images that are a part of any Wikipedia page, like the W with the globe in the corner.
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by justinbach on Friday November 19, 2010 @12:00PM (#1921902)
Yeah, definitely makes it much less fun. I've added filtering to address this.
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by TenJack on Friday November 19, 2010 @01:55AM (#1920688)
I have been considering using images from wikipedia in a project that is much different than this but I was wondering: is it okay to embed the images so that they load from wikipedia, or would you need to download them and save them to your own server? This might be called inline linking?
Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by gojomo on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:10AM (#1920714)
Nice. May want to rule out images that are too common (the search magnifier) or routine/small (nationality flags, though I got most of those right).

Also, especially after answering, I'd like to click through to the real article to see the image in context -- so it's be nice to provide that link.

It might be interesting to use the same corpus in a different challenge -- for example, five articles and five pictures, match each to the right article.

Re:Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game by tomjen3 on Friday November 19, 2010 @04:36AM (#1920949)
Interesting, but you need to have the correct appear below the try another link (so it doesn't move when correct fades away).

And please filter for icons.