12.01 Wikipedia speedrunning

Wikipedia speed-running is a fun game, you don’t need much to play it. You just need something that accesses the internet per person.

how to play

Basics

1. Someone chooses the starting article. For this example we’ll take the Node.js page.
2. Everyone who wants to play goes to this article.
3. Someone decides the finish article. For this example we’ll take the Windows Phone page.
4. Now every player will try to get to the finish article. You do this by clicking the links on the page (Links are the blue underlined words).
5. The first person to get to the finish page wins.

So in this example you could get there by doing the following¹ route:

graph TB   
Node.js --> Javascript   
Javascript --> GUI
GUI --> Window
Window --> Windows-OS
Windows-OS --> Windows-Phone

But the thing with Wikipedia is: There are so many ways to go from one way to another.

Rules

There are a few rules to this.

1. No use of CTRL+F, This makes things way too easy.
2. Not allowed to go to any domain that is not Wikipedia
3. Everyone should use the same language
4. You are allowed to go back to a previous page.
5. The starting page and ending page don’t need to have anything in common. Trust me, it’s possible to go from Ballet to Minecraft².
6. You are not allowed to “check” anything if it is not “checkable” on the page you are currently at.
7. The References heading is not allowed to be used. Only use Links from the article itself.
8. You are allowed to peek at what others are doing, if it’s wise is another question. (You are not allowed to follow step by step what they are doing)

Examples

Node.js→Windows phone

1. Node.js
2. Javascript
3. Graphical user interface
4. Window (computing)
5. Microsoft Windows
6. Windows Phone

ballet→minecraft

1. Ballet
2. Music
3. Social Media
4. Discord
5. Microsoft
6. Minecraft

Footnotes

1. Here is the list of pages I mentioned in the example ↩

2. Okay I had to check this for you, because someone probably doesn’t believe me. I am using English Wikipedia for this. Here is the order. ↩