Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle quiz/Answers
Wikipedia People[edit]
- Category:Wikipedians with article had 7 people listed at the time of the quiz: Jim Duffy (author), Michael Everson, Joi Ito, Richard Mayer, Sheldon Rampton, Larry Sanger, and of course, Jimmy Wales.
- How many members of the Arbitration Committee ran for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees? Two, User:Delirium and User:Maveric149.
Brilliant Prose[edit]
Featured article? At the time of the quiz:
- Aviation history - No
- Bishojo game - Yes
- Brolga - Yes
- Common sense - No
- Freemasonry - Yes
- Imatinib - No
- Ralph Yarborough - Yes
- Richard Wagner - No
- Shrine of Remembrance - Yes
- Strategic management - Yes
- Treaty of Devol - Yes
- Urban renewal - No
This kind of question naturally gives you a 50/50 chance. One person at the meetup commented on his performance: "Considerably worse than random." Note: All of those that are not featured have been featured article candidates at some point.
Language Skills[edit]
- cy = Welsh
- el = Greek
- eu = Basque
- ga = Irish
- nl = Dutch
- zh = Chinese
In order of size by number of articles, at the time of the quiz:
- nl.wikipedia.org
- zh.wikipedia.org
- cy.wikipedia.org
- eu.wikipedia.org
- el.wikipedia.org
- ga.wikipedia.org
Miscellaneous Trivia[edit]
Which of the following phrases is not the title of a Wikipedia article?
- All your base are belong to us
- Boxers or briefs?
- England expects that every man will do his duty
- It depends what the definition of is is...
- Let's get ready to rumble!
- What would Jesus do?
At the time of the quiz, Boxers or briefs? was a redlink. Note: All your base are belong to us and England expects that every man will do his duty are featured articles.
How many pages of Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense does Wikipedia currently have, not counting subpages?
- Credit was given for any answer between 15 and 19, as the basic BJAODN is an index, there are (or were at the times) 15 content pages, two "best-ofs", and you can see all of the pages together as the Encyclopædia BJAODNonica.
The Name Game[edit]
| Real name | User name | Signature | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex <removed> | Lst27 | John Kerry + John Edwards 2004 |
| 2 | Charles Podles | Mirv | No-One Jones |
| 3 | Florence Devouard | Anthere | SweetLittleFluffyThing |
| 4 | Jim Duffy | Jtdirl | FearÉIREANN |
| 5 | Steve Gustafson | Ihcoyc | Smerdis of Tlön |
Where's the Article?[edit]
- Aluminum/Aluminium
- Color/Colour
- Fiber/Fibre
- Humor/Humour
- Kilometer/Kilometre (of course, because the U.S. still is not metric)
- Sulfur/Sulphur
- Theater/Theatre
All of the alternate spellings are redirects, of course.
A total of 120 points was theoretically possible.