2024:Program/Wikimedia quiz

Session title: Wikimedia quiz

Session type: Meetup / performance / event

Track: Wild Ideas

Language: en

A Wikimedia quiz that would be suitable for participants of all abilities.

Description

The proposal is a Wikimedia quiz, designed to be suitable for participants of all abilities. Questions would be designed to

• be as language and project-independent as possible
• have a wide standard deviation overall in terms of difficulty level, so there would be some questions that even a newcomer would be able to access, while a few would be designed to stretch the very best participants.

This is not an event designed with socialisation in mind (such as a pub quiz). The focus is on the questions.

The quiz specification is available at https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leaderboard/WMF_Quiz_2024

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

The event is designed to bring participants of all levels and experience together in a common quiz, where they'll get the chance to showcase what they do know, and learn what they don't,

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Leaderboard

I'm Leaderboard. Currently I'm an admin on three WMF wikis (en.wikibooks, MediaWiki and Meta-Wiki) and normally specialise in the technical area, writing automation tools and helping users with technical-related problems on my wikis (such as importing and abuse filters) and elsewhere.