General
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Give credit for redirects.
This may or may not be simply "part of the challenge," but periodically there are improperly formatted tags that lead to redirects to the desired page. When reached by redirect, there's no credit given, requiring finding another way back there.
Wouldn't be as much of a problem but sometimes the time just runs out when you make these extra clicks and nothing happens for a really long time, and that's just no fun.
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User Profiles
Make links from users' names to their "user profiles" (which they have created) so one could see that. Then one could find out a little about who they are (or who they say they are, anyway)
68 votes -
make destination link always available
Players will typically want to see the goal page at the start and maybe have it open in another tab. There should be a convenient way to open it at any time.
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Disable Category links, External links, ISBN/User/Disambiguation pages to stop cheaters
Most Wikipedia Game rules forbid the use of these links, as it makes the game really easy.
61 votes -
51 votes
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Bring back the all time leader board!
Whats the point in keeping score if it just goes away after a week?
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A continuous (timed or not) version where you go into another from the end of the first (continuous)
Can you make a version in where you have a time limit and complete as many games. But, after the first game (ex: baseball to president) the next one should start with the ending page (ex: president to Honda). The player with the most completed ones (within the time limit) wins at then end.
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Specific point systems
make speed and the least amount of clicks worth something even for the main game. I am someone who both gets first and does it in a small number of clicks and i think i should be rewarded for this. This would also help people who are slow but use less clicks to get to the goal. Time bonuses would also be nice to incorperate, because if you get a goal in 20 seconds then i think that is pretty note worthy and deserving of some extra points.
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Ability to click and see the stats of other people
just like you can for yourself at http://wikipediagame.org/stats/mine
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30 votes
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make sure there are no differences between arriving at "magic johnson" and earvin "magic" johnson jr
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Adjust the number of points awarded based on the number of players who were in the round
It would be a good idea to adjust the number of points awarded based on the number of people who played that round.
If there were more people playing you should get more points for coming first and vice versa.
Getting 1000 points for coming first when there were only 2 players doesn't make sense.
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17 votes
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Include categories
For example, a "famous people" category or a "literature" one that makes you go from and article of that category to another one of the same
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Answer variations
When the word is "Plant" for example, I can click on "Plants" and not get the win, even though it's the same article. "Plants" redirects to "Plant", but I have to click a link called "Plant" to get the win.
Either way, I end up on the page "Plant", so I should get the win.
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14 votes
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Don't award 1000 points when no one else is playing.
I'm not saying no points should be awarded, but 1000 points when there is no competition is a bit absurd and it cheapens the leader boards.
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12 votes
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10 votes
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Fix the percentage stat.
The percentage stat includes games won before the recent changes, but not games lost. Mine currently read 410%.
9 votes