 Hello world. Looking good. Looking good. Hi. I'm from the audience. Hello fellow Wikimaniacs. Hello everyone. Welcome everyone again. Hello everyone and welcome to our inaugural Wikimaniac 2021 quiz. So we're going to get right into it. There are four of us here today. Sam, James, myself and Derek. We're all former Wikimaniac organizers, among other things. So to participate today, it's very simple. We are going to read a question. You will type your answers in the general chat. We are looking for good answers. We're looking for awesome answers, fast answers. We may award prizes at our at our discretion. Okay. Is everyone ready? Let's get to it with our first round of questions. We're going to start with a lightning round. Over to you, Sam. All right. Let's have a lightning round on animals. Which of these is not a real English Wikipedia article? Exploding whale? Exploding toads? Sexual cannibalism in arachnids? Buttered cat paradox? Or the list of animals with fraudulent diplomas? Toads seem to be the big thing at the moment in the chat. I'm seeing guesses for everything. Yeah. Four, two, five. Diplomas is the next most common answer. Which one is it? In fact, it's sexual cannibalism in arachnids. Not that it doesn't happen, but it has no article. A wiki gap. Okay. Now that we've gotten our first lightning round, the first round is the early days of Wikipedia. To you, James. Hey there. So the first question is, English was the first edition of Wikipedia, but what were the next three language editions to be created? Now, I know some of you are going to say things like Klingon. But is that right? Is that the language we're looking for? It was early. It was. It was also killed early too, right? Oh, I see a lot of German, Catalan, Spanish, French. Navi. Interesting. Okay. Moving on. Well, the actual answers are German, Catalan, and French. And that was back in March, 2001. A whole bunch of others came quite quickly after that, though. So the next question is, when did templates become a feature in media wiki? We use them all the time. No way were they ever not. But actually, there was a time before templates, and some of us remember it, not necessarily with love, but we remember it. I see 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2003, 2002, excellent. Well, if we can see the answer, the answer is December, 2003. It was a nice Yuletide present for us. But actually, the first version of templates was totally useless, as it were. They didn't have parameters, they were in the media wiki namespace, and we took the site down to switch over to the new syntax a few months later. Next question. So all the language Wikipedia's together passed one million articles sometime in 2004. But where was the first article that was the millionth article in the English Wikipedia? And what was it? We had a big party around this. Do you all remember that? Yeah, we had a big celebration. Someone remember the answer already? What's created? I'm behind in the chat. 2006, 2005. A small railway station in Glasgow is indeed correct. Jordan Hill railway station on the 1st of March 2006. And we're now up to over 6 million articles in English and 60 million across all the Wikipedia's. It's amazing. What did Alex and Andy do for getting a right answer? Indeed, indeed. And finally, before Wikipedia used brackets for links, we had article names via an uppercase letter, and then a lowercase letter, and then another uppercase letter. But what was this anal theming called? Oh, I'm seeing a lot of answers here. There's a lot of people quite sure it's countered. I prefer lemalinks myself. I do too. And I think it's a real missed opportunity that we didn't name it that. Maybe we should bring it back. But indeed, camelcase is the right answer. Well done, everyone, for getting that. All right. Yes. A lightning round. Let's do another lightning round, folks. This lightning round is about science. Which of these is not a real English Wikipedia article? Illegal numbers, scientific wild ass guess, death by coconut, unusually shaped vegetables, or hallucinogenic insects. Do we have guesses, folks? The audience is pretty evenly divided. What's that? The audience is quite evenly divided. We've got all of them. It's a confusing question. Okay. The answer is hallucinogenic insects does not, in fact, have an article, although there is one about hallucinogenic fish. Okay. Over to Derek. All right. Let's have some wiki culture. Bring on a quiz. So what is the largest wiki photo competition in which over 2.4 million photos have been contributed? We love photos and media, don't we? Oh, yes. And the answers are flying in. Yeah. Which one is the biggest one? Interesting. Interesting. We've got the wiki loves monuments. The answer is wiki loves monuments. Yeah. The answer isn't strip waffles, Derek. I mean, it should be strip waffles clearly. Yeah, it really should be sure in it. Next question. How many language editions of wiki voyage are there? We've got some pretty broad numbers here. I wonder what's going on in the quiz master's head. 15, 24, 96, 197, 347. Could be any of these, couldn't it? Yeah. Someone asked, are we talking about active ones or all of them? Oh, yes. Let's not stop. Okay. Let's look at the answer. 24. There are 24 of them. And the first wiki voyage site was started on wiki media service in 2012. Next question. What association of wiki medians recognizes the contributions of our mascots and plush stuffed animal friends? Who are the major members? The true overlords. Yeah, the true overlords of wiki media. Yeah. We see a few acronyms amongst the submissions. Oh, that acronym is ambiguous. We need to disambiguate it. Yep. It's the wiki media community association. Next question. Oh, it's another lightning round over to James. Hi, everyone. So for this lightning round, the question is, which of these is not a real Wikipedia English Wikipedia even history article? So is it the list of the shortest wars or dancing plague of 1518 or the London beer flood or the great molasses flood or the war of the bucket? What are we thinking? Yeah, what are our guesses here? A lot of votes across the spectrum here. A lot of fives. I've seen a lot of threes as well. Fours. A lot of fours. Tues. I'm seeing some twos. Okay. Yep. The answer was not a real article. Well, actually, list of conflicts by duration exists, but list of shortest wars doesn't yet. So go and fill that gap. Amazing. And I would like you all to know that the molasses flood was a real thing that happened in Boston, and we celebrated it at wikimania 2006. So if I remember correctly. So over to you. Speaking of wiki mania's past and present, we have a whole round for you. First, in what kind of venue is the very first wiki mania held? Was it a hotel? A university campus? A river boat? A nature preserve? A youth hostel? Or a data center? A data center? It kind of plays out your do. I would command it. I mean, in a real sense, this wiki mania is in a data center, right? I think this one is. Yeah, this might be. Indeed, you all got it. It was in a youth hostel in Frankfurt. Oh, it was so good, too. Which of the cities has never hosted a wiki mania? Was it Berlin, Washington, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Nansk, San Francisco, or Atlantis? There could be multiple answers. Atlantis was high, right? Atlantis has always been popular as a potential. Okay, where are we getting? Atlantis, Atlantis, Hong Kong? Let's look at the answer. Indeed, Atlantis, Berlin, and San Francisco. Berlin has hosted many other wikimedia events, as has San Francisco, but... One day we'll get... Which wiki mania involved a physically editable main schedule? You could run around, move things about. In a way, they were all editable, weren't they? Trick is getting other people to follow the schedule you've just changed, right? And in only that one case, the physical one was the master copy. Oh, Boston. Definitely Taipei. Maybe in some way, the Boston schedule was still physically editable. But Taipei had this big board. It was so great. And now, another lightning round for you, James. Brilliant. So this is a French wikipedia question. So which of these is not a real French wikipedia article? Is it Bers? International talk like a pirate day? Je n'ai de conversation comme in pirate? Pathopédia or pathophysique? And, you know, the answer here is really clear, right? Nope. You pronounced the opening... Yeah, one of those in French. We're getting guesses all over the place. Uh-huh. Fours, twos? Two because that's English. Well, actually, it's the other way round. International talk like a pirate day exists, but the translation of that term in French doesn't, even as a redirect. That's French wikipedia. So the answer is all of them. All right. French wikipedia, get on the case here. Okay. Next we have, oh, another lightning lightning round. Uh, this one's for you, Derek. Let's have another language question. So let's go to Chinese wikipedia this time. Which of the following is not a real Chinese wikipedia article? Is it number one? Number two, Yuan Jing Juxing. Number three, Duang. Number four, Ruo Zhi Shi. Number five, Leng Xiaohua. Amazing. Where are the guesses we're getting? Yeah. Where are the sounds taking you? Three and one seem to be... Yeah, three and one is a trend. Yeah. Okay. Shall we look? You're in for a surprise. Actually, Ruo Zhi Shi, hot knowledge doesn't exist, whereas cold knowledge is opposite. It means trivia and is a Chinese wikipedia article. Yeah, what? You know what we have on Wikipedia? Hot knowledge. Hot knowledge for sale. Hot knowledge about cold knowledge, right? Okay. Oh, round four, technology. And that one, this one's me. So our first question is who developed the very first wiki software, which went live with the first wiki in 1995? I'm seeing some guesses for Ward. Magnus Manskey. Yep. Someone's guessing the wiki-wiki web, which is the name of the software. Okay. Let's look at the answer. So those of you who guessed Ward, of course, Ward Cunningham, our friend and collaborator developed the very first wiki with the wiki that still exists on C2.com, the wiki-wiki web. Oh, yes. And Ward is attending this conference. Second question. What's the longest time that the wikimedia projects have ever been offline? James? The longest they were offline that was my fault was like 45 minutes, right? And that was bad. Don't give you, you know, come on. Sure. Sure. Okay. I'm guessing so about 48 hours. 4.6 million years is a pretty good guess. This is an obscure question going back to the early days. In 2005, on the 22nd of February, there was no reading of wikimedia for a day, but we had editing shutdown for three days. Whoa. Pretty bad. Yeah. You said it was a data center failure? Yeah. There was a power failure in the data center and the hard drives of the database crashed. So we lost all the edits in flight and we had to rebuild the database from scratch, which was not fun. Ouch. Ouch. You had one of the RAID controllers that we lost? Yeah. I mean, I can talk more in detail if people really have questions. It was bad. Okay. Question. The media wiki was started as someone's first-ever PHP project, the first thing they ever wrote in PHP. Who's was it? Um, Magnus Mansky, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Brian Biber, Chad Horroho, and all of these folks, you may know, are notable for being major contributors to media wiki. Magnus Love is coming back. Yeah. Magnus. Oh, yeah. What? We got some Magnus. Got some Brian Love. Dropping with their legends. Okay. Well, those of you who guess Magnus, you're correct. Of course, he's a legend. Everyone's done massive works, though. And you know what? That is the end of our quiz. Thank you for playing. On behalf of all of us, enjoy the rest of Wikimedia. Have a great time. Thank you for coming. Bye, everyone. See you. If you want more, you can start making your own lightning sessions for the rest of the month. More. We're having requests for more and for a thunder round. Lincorb, you know, I think the old one, right? I think we do actually have some time, uh, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, we went, we went much faster than we thought we were going to. So, um, I don't know if we can come up with a thunder round on the fly, though. Who won? We all won. Any other questions? Pass. That's a winner. Who is our winner? Did anyone get all of you on chat? Correct. The real, the real winners of this are us, because we have the fun of hosting the quiz and asking the questions and thinking up silly questions to ask, right? Can we, uh, I think, I think because we, um, if I'm not mistaken, we have a few more minutes. Am I mistaken? Uh, you can get kicked off the stage at any time here. Yeah. I've, I've lost track of everything, including when we're ending this session. Eleven minutes. We have eleven minutes. Holy moly. Okay. Well, as a bonus round, I think we should go back to the lightning rounds and talk about our favorite articles, uh, because we each had a hand in developing these lightning rounds. And then we will give you all a break. My favorite article, uh, out of the lightning rounds is the Great Molasses Flood, which is a real thing that happened in Boston. SJ told me about it many years ago when the streets of Boston were flooded with molasses. Uh, it was terrible. Um, do any of you have a favorite article? I think my collaborators are frozen or possibly I am. And, uh, we also have a winner that's noted in chat. There's another good one. David Richfield says his favorite article is a list of lists of lists, which is the only article that is legitimately self-referential on Wikipedia. And interestingly, it's been, um, ported to many other Wikipedia's, um, because of the list structure that we use on Wikipedia. So yeah, that's a great one. Yeah. Ramsey says football wall, um, and, oh, that's a nice one. And Luca says lists of lists that do not contain themselves. One's favorite Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, which you have to understand exactly all the meanings of the word Buffalo in slang English to actually understand how that's a question. Yeah. So one of the answers here in the Chinese round is an oblique reference to it. So number one, um, some of you might have picked up from the pronunciation I used that this isn't actually Chinese. This is a classical Japanese riddle. Um, but of course, um, Chinese and Japanese has, have been sharing a script for the last 1000 years. And, um, and, and this is written in, um, in Chinese characters. And it involves the same character being used 12 times in a row with four different pronunciations in this case. So if you were a Chinese speaker, you would just pronounce this 12 times over, but the riddle, which was said by a Japanese nobleman, um, as it was attributed is, um, is to use the multiple pronunciations of this character in classical Japanese to put together a poem that actually has a meaning. It's Nekunoko Koneko Shishinoko Kojishi, which means the son of a cat, a little cat, or a kitty, um, the son of a lion, a lion cop. And, um, it's a, it has a interesting raw story to it. Um, if you want to read the story, type in the name in either language, in any of the languages and you should be able to find it. Yeah. And, um, number three is a, um, is a meme word that is attributed to Jackie Chan, um, the unfortunately now disgraced Hong Kong film star, um, because he once made the sound while doing an advertisement on a shampoo brand that he was, um, sponsoring. Hence the, the Duang sound, um, because it's a sound of bouncing on itself. Yeah. Amazing. Um, should we, uh, should we, can you all hear me, James? Yeah, we can. Yes. We can. Okay. Excellent. I'm so sorry. My internet was lagging people. So I, uh, I think I was a little behind the times. Should we talk about the exploding whale articles, uh, the animal? Yeah, there was no explosion when there. Uh, there are a remarkable number of exploding animals. Uh, uh, sometimes naturally exploding, but quite often exploding because of human misadventure, shall we say? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So, um, oops, that's the very first one. Bear with me, bear with me. Um, so yeah, who wants to say something about this? Uh, uh, uh, uh, exploding whale was quite famous, uh, for a while in Wikipedia, Wikipedia land. Do you want to talk about that, James or Sam? Yeah, so, uh, exploding whale, I think was the first time we made article as a kind of spoof concept on the front page of English Wikipedia on the first of April one year. And it started a tradition where although we mess around a little bit on the first of April, because it's April Fool's Day, we don't mislead our readers. We don't tell them things that aren't true. We're still telling them true things. They're just odd or funny things instead on the first. And, uh, exploding whale, I think there was a beached, sadly, dead whale and they decided to, to break it up into small pieces with explosives and they picked the wrong number of explosives by several orders of magnitude and it went everywhere and onto a lot of people and it made a whole mess, which is very sad, but awkward and funny in retrospect. So terrible. Sam, do you want to add anything about any of these or the science articles? The buttered cat paradox is really a science article. Yeah, that's true. I call it maps of philosophy article. My favorite was when I was putting this together, right? I did not know that the list of animals with fraudulent diplomas existed, but it sure does. It sure does, folks. It did a lot longer than you'd expect. I mean, the problem with the title is that it implies that there is an equivalent list of animals with non-fraudulent diplomas. And I'm just intrigued as to what circumstances an animal can demonstrate, you know, the necessary skills to earn a diploma. Oh, but James, we do have an article on that. Really? Of course we do. Yes, the list of animals with honorary credentials. Someone in chat is saying that Death by Coconut is one of their favorite articles. It is a pretty good article, although a bit morbid, a bit morbid. But we have many articles about various unusual ways to die on the English Wikipedia, including by coconut. Someone in the chat is also saying that Twilights in Japan is a particularly nice German article. Yeah, we did browse around for unusual articles in other languages here. Part of what makes doing the quiz such fun. Yes. So I guess it's time for us to end, but Phoebe, did you want to read out the special commendation list from our helpers? You do it because I can't. Excellent. In that case, if you go to the end of the slides, I will say that from Taz, our special commendations go to Ian Ramjohn, Anas Sedrati, Juan Kulchevski, Martin, Wikimedia Deutschland, Alex Lum, Valerio Perticoni, Nick Moyes, Florence Devois, Isaac, Olo Ruhmann, Teley Hen, sorry, I mispronounced your name. I'm really sorry. Lucas Wörkeminster, Vera de Koch, Takashi Ota, Mali Kai, oh sorry, the screen is very small. Mali Kajur, I really screwed up your name. I'm sorry. Lydia Pinscher, Filip Mojkovic, Rausmi N, Little Gun, Ad, and Andy finally. Brilliant. And thank you to everyone that took part. That was really brilliant. Yay, thank you. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of Wikimedia.