There was a trivia night at this year's Wikimania.

Hand Signals

where

Suggested time/place:

  • July 10th, evening
  • Gdansk Philharmonic -- open space or auditorium
  • unknown: food & drink possibilities

(list alternate times/places here)

signup

Moderators: phoebe and Witty lama; others needed (send phoebe an email if you want to help).

teams

Are you game? Add your name here! be sure and add a team name for new teams: e.g., Team NPOV

  1. team:
    1. Jdforrester 20:29, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    2. Abbasjnr
    3. --WikedKentaur 08:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. team: ORANGE
    1. Sj
  3. team:
    1. members here
  4. team:
    1. members here
  5. team:
    1. members here
  6. team:
    1. members here
  7. team:
    1. members here
  8. team: Octopus
    1. WereSpielChequers 20:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  9. team:
    1. members here
  10. team:
    1. members here
  11. team:
    1. members here

Or if you prefer just put your name down here and sort out into teams later:

  1. Friedel
  2. Delphine
  3.  guillom
  4. VasilievVV
  5. ...

...

suggested topics

Suggested categories (not individual questions)

  • Copyright edge cases
  • "is this subject an article?"
  • Pre-2005
  • WMF Staff and Trustees
  • Poland on Wikipedia a.k.a. "quick poles"
  • Code and Tools
  • foundation.l ("who said this?")
  • "What's that language code?" (equally, "what's that policy acronym?")
  • What categories are on this image
  • Metadata Standards
  • Tech - random bug identification
  • Wiki-people
  • Non-en.wp history and events
  • What project logo-competition was this logo submitted for
  • quotes by the press/books about wikipedia, idenfitication
  • Wikigroaning

Prizes

Of course there will be prizes.

  • team with the most correct answers
  • best team name
  • etc.

What is this?

See en:Pub quiz. No article yet in Polish, I see.

Questions and answers

If you want to play or to see the correct answers, see commons:Category:Wikimania 2010 Trivia Night: don't cheat, don't use Internet to answer and don't study all the above topics in advance. ;-)

Credits.