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Wikipedia People

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Brilliant Prose

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Featured article? At the time of the quiz:

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

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  • 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:

  1. nl.wikipedia.org
  2. zh.wikipedia.org
  3. cy.wikipedia.org
  4. eu.wikipedia.org
  5. el.wikipedia.org
  6. ga.wikipedia.org

Miscellaneous Trivia

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Which of the following phrases is not the title of a Wikipedia article?

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

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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?

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All of the alternate spellings are redirects, of course.


A total of 120 points was theoretically possible.