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[edit] May 4 2008
Quiz set by Anonymous101.
- 5/6 And I thought Indians were healthy. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:03, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- 6/6 Woo-hoo! Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 14:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- 6/6 Hurrah! First time I got a decent score on one of these things. Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 05:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] April 6, 2008
Quiz set by Steven Fruitsmaak.
- 6/10 (→Zachary) 19:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- 10/10 ...uhh, wow! --Skenmy(t•c•w) 19:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- 5/10 or, to make myself sound smarter, 1/2 ;) --Nzgabriel | Talk 04:19, 8 April 2008 (UTC).
- 9/10 --Brian McNeil / talk 06:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 FIX link to question 1's right answer tcp-ip - (talk) 22:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 - --SVTCobra 22:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] March 23, 2008
Quiz set by Blood Red Sandman
- 10/10
--Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 15:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC) - 9/10 --Brian McNeil / talk 08:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 tcp-ip - (talk) 13:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- 9/10 --SVTCobra 14:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] March 16, 2008
Quiz set by Steven Fruitsmaak.
- 10/10, which means I need to be reading less and writing more. ;) ~Planoneck~ 02:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- 4/10, so I guess I need to be doing the opposite of Planoneck :) --JamesHarrison - (talk) 18:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- 8/10 --Brian McNeil / talk 22:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- 5/10 although I wrote the article question nine is based on. --Nzgabriel | Talk 03:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- 8/10 --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 07:45, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 11:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- 6/10 tcp-ip - (talk) 13:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] March 9, 2008
Quiz set by FellowWikiNews and Steven Fruitsmaak.
- 5/10 Oh dear ;-) Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 17:23, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 6/10, not as bad as the last quiz I took (→Zachary) 17:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10, not good - obviously not reading enough full articles as compared to diffs. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 4/10 - not very good. --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:52, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- 4/10 tcp-ip - (talk) 16:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] February 17, 2008
Quiz set by Anonymous101 on February 17, 2008.
- 6/7 —FellowWiki Newsie 01:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
- Which question did you get wrong? --Anonymous101 Talk 06:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
- 4/7 - rarely I am guessing so much, I only knew one for certain. --SVTCobra 22:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
- 3/7 I dislike having to choose more than one answer. --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- I got a 7/7 after 6 tries:D Spockezri
- 4/7 tcp-ip - (talk) 21:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- 5/7 I flunked.drdilong- (talk) 6:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
4/7 on the first try it said i got 6/7 but then i went back with the one it said was right and it said i was still wrong.
- 0/7 for me. 208.100.195.115 17:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] February 13, 2008
Quiz set by Planoneck on February 13, 2008.
- 6/10 Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 20:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 The correct answer of the forth question should be 50000, not 5000. tcp-ip - (talk) 23:05, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
- 6/10 --Nzgabriel | Talk 10:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
- 7/10 —FellowWiki Newsie 16:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] February 3, 2008
Quiz set by FellowWikiNews on February 3, 2008.
- 6/8 ~Planoneck~ 19:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- 8/9 --Brian McNeil / talk 19:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- 9/9 —FellowWiki Newsie 19:48, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- 8/9 or 7/8 as I wrote about the earthquakes. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 19:55, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- 7/9 --Anonymous101 18:23, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- 6/9 - I answered New Zealand to the third question because I thought it might have meant suicide rates (The Lowdown article). I got #2, #3 and #8 wrong. --Nzgabriel | Talk 01:43, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 4/9 - pretty poor, though at least one, I felt, was misleading ... and I wrote the story on which it was based. --SVTCobra 01:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 6/9 --Boricuæddie 01:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 6/9--75.84.1.36 02:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 3/9 I fail. (→Zachary) 03:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 3/9 I fail. (→Zachary) 03:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 6/9 tcp-ip 23:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] January 27, 2008
Quiz set by Anonymous101 on January 27, 2008.
- 6/8 --Brian McNeil / talk 10:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 5/8 Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 12:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 3/8 —FellowWiki Newsie 21:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 6/8 — that was cool ;-) --Boricuæddie 22:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Don't you have a quiz over on es: ? --Brian McNeil / talk 22:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, we do. Actually, I wrote the last one myself ;-) Why do you ask? --Boricuæddie 22:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Because I was too lazy to check for interwiki. :-P In case you missed discussion here, Cormac Lawler from Wikiversity was delighted to see us using the Quiz extension. It gives them a great example to point at. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, we do. Actually, I wrote the last one myself ;-) Why do you ask? --Boricuæddie 22:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Don't you have a quiz over on es: ? --Brian McNeil / talk 22:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 5/8, but I wrote 3 of the articles. ~Planoneck~ 22:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- That doesn't really matter; I created the Spanish version of George Bush announces trip to Africa and still got the question wrong ;-) --Boricuæddie 22:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 8/8! Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 07:15, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Well done. Despite writing about 3 of the events for Wikinews and writing the quiz I still only got 7/8. (I did the quiz the day after I set it).--User:Anonymous101 Talk 18:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- 6/8 tcp-ip 22:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- 6/8 --SVTCobra 22:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- 8/8 --Spockezri- Took five tries
8/8 in 2 tries!! wow! 4/4 200.82.111.218 11:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
- 5/8 --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- 5/8 --Reader 781 09:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
6/8: Though at least 3 of them were semi-educated guesses.
[edit] January 13, 2008
Quiz set by FellowWikiNews on January 13, 2008.
- 7/9 And not a turkey in sight. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- 9/9 —FellowWiki Newsie 18:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- 9/9 I have no idea how that happened. ~Planoneck~ 18:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- 7/9 --Jcart1534 19:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- 8/9 or 7/8 as I wrote the Iraq story. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 19:03, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- 7/9 --User:Anonymous101 Talk 17:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
- 7/9 - isn't A and D both true in question 6? Or did I misread that article? --SVTCobra 02:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- 4/9 -- Spiderpig0001 07:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- 7/9 I got number four and number six wrong. Although I was annoyed at the sixth question because of the way the question was written and three of the four answers were technically correct regarding the article as a whole. --Nzgabriel | Talk 00:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
- 6/9 tcp-ip 19:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] December 31, 2007
Quiz set by User:Anonymous101 on 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 8/18 Hard quiz Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 15:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 7/18 —FellowWiki Newsie 16:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'm pleased to hear User:The wub made a new better quiz but if you want to try out the old 18 question quiz, I posted at my talk page. --User:Anonymous101 18:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 18/18 :) -ComputerGuy890100 22:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- 9/19 tough ... very tough --SVTCobra 22:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Extended quiz (50 questions)
Quiz set by the wub on 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 27/52. Good quiz (quite hard). --User:Anonymous101 18:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 37/51 Pass the beer I'm thirsty after that Guantanamoesque interrogation. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 24/51 —FellowWiki Newsie 19:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 38/51, good quiz, and nice touch at the end!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- 25/51 Had to guess on a lot of them, but a very good quiz nonetheless. ~Planoneck~ 19:48, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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- The rest of us are trying to sleep off dinner. We kidnapped the two turkeys President Bush pardoned and had one for Christmas, and the other for New Year. IIRC Dick Cheney called them "lunch" and "dinner". --Brian McNeil / talk 19:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- 32/51 Good quiz, I liked doing that one! Surprised that there was no New Zealand content though... :P. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- 26/51 Fantastic. News Bug 21:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- 27/51 Great year for Wikinewstcp-ip 22:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- 39/51 Great quiz! Took some thought, good mix of topics, but not too hard. How it should be! Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 20:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
- 17/51 Great quiz! I am so bad at quizzes. I need to read up to prepare for 2008's quiz. -ComputerGuy890100 22:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- 36/51 --SVTCobra 22:15, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- 36/51 --Jcart1534 04:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] December 24, 2007
Quiz set by Bawolff ☺☻ on 21:08, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- 4/7 --SVTCobra 21:26, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/7 or 3/5 as I wrote two articles involved. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 12:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- 4/7 - Althought I wrote the article the first question is based on; so really should be 3/6. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- 4/7, thanks for doing the quiz bawolff! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:41, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/7 - some lucky guesses there too. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:49, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks and thanks
- 0/7 - test — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 0/7 - I really hope this works properly — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 7/7 - Of course i actually made the quiz...(Spam: try new (beta) score poster in special:preferences → gadgets) — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 3/7 --User:Anonymous101 17:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/7 —FellowWiki Newsie 17:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/7 tcp-ip 18:09, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 0/7 - testing the new quiz feature — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 0/7 - testing the new quiz feature — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 1/7 - testing — Bawolff ☺☻ 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- 2/7 - test — Bawolff ☺☻ 19:32, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
- 1/7 - — —FellowWiki Newsie 19:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] December 18, 2007
Quiz set by Anonymous101 on December 18, 2007.
- 4/7 Please, fix question 3 and the link to the right answer of question 5. tcp-ip 21:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- 3/7 and all of them prior knowledge or educated guesses. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 12:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- 4/7 —FellowWiki Newsie 17:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- 7/7 but then I did create the quiz :) --User:Anonymous101 19:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- 4/7 --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] December 9, 2007
Quiz set by Celticfan383 on December 9, 2007.
- 6/8 - 4 and 8 wrong, I paid no attention to either at the time. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 14:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/8, thanks for doing the quiz Celticfan!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- 7/8 - —FellowWiki Newsie 18:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- 6/8 --Brian McNeil / talk 18:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- 3/8 --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- 8/8 - the football transfer was a total guess. --SVTCobra 18:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- 5/8 tcp-ip 21:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] December 2, 2007
Quiz set by Steven Fruitsmaak on December 4, 2007.
- 5/10 : not read much news this week, and it shows Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 07:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- 6/10 tcp-ip 19:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- 6/10 --Anonymous101 19:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- 3/10 —FellowWiki Newsie 18:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Something wrong with the first two questions. First one in the answers says she was sentenced to 40 lashes, she wasn't. Second one lists an unrelated article with the answers and
I think the answer is wrong anyway.(checked photo) --Brian McNeil / talk 09:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Done--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)- It says she did NOT recieve 40 lashes (although it might have changed since you said that) --Anonymous101 19:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] November 25, 2007
Quiz set by Steven Fruitsmaak.
- 4/10 ! —FellowWiki Newsie 22:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
- 7/10 I was rolling on the floor laughing at the options on the first question. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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- I try to get the quiz to be funny and tricky, I'm glad you enjoyed.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- 5/10. But since I wrote the article number nine is based on, it really is 4/9. Also, I thought that number eight was quite unfair, I knew what he said in English!! --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC) Liked question number three's possible answers!!! --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- 9/10 - missed the town in UK where the data was lost. Guessed right on the spacestation. --SVTCobra 09:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- 5/10
- 6/10tcp-ip 19:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- 7/10 --Jcart1534 19:58, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- 5/10 Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 21:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] November 18, 2007
Quiz set by Steven Fruitsmaak.
Post scores as * x/10 <optional comment> --~~~~
- 8/10 --Brian McNeil / talk 10:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- 8/10 Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 12:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Which questions did you get wrong?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Me? Pakistani elections because I wasn't paying close enough attention to the upcoming elections, and Oil tanker which I don't think I actually read. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Or, if you mean me, the Iranian nuclear material and and the Dalai Lama, same as Jurock. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 18:57, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Me? Pakistani elections because I wasn't paying close enough attention to the upcoming elections, and Oil tanker which I don't think I actually read. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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- 6/10 —FellowWiki Newsie 14:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- 8/10 - got wrong Iran's and the Dalai Lama's – Jurock (reply) 18:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- A mere 3/10 - didn't get a good result this week. The only questions I got right were three, five, and ten. --Nzgabriel | Talk 04:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
- 7/10 tcp-ip 19:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Quiz team
[edit] How to help
If you would like to join our effort to prepare next week's quiz, just go ahead and prepare one here.
[edit] Some guidelines
There are no strict rules for what can be included in the quiz and what not, but here are some tips:
- The title of the quiz is "World News Quiz". Try to include news that is relevant for an international audience, and that has some international importance.
- Related to that, try to balance the questions so that no single continent or topic (like politics) dominates the news.
- News from neglected places (like Africa) or on neglected topics (like Health) can be favoured.
- Try to put easy questions first and hard ones at the bottom.
- Look for images to match with the questions, and leave some space between the questions with images.
- A good quiz is one were nobody scores 10/10 and nobody scores 0/10; try to make it fun for everyone.
[edit] Quizmasters
Our previous quizmasters include:
- Brian McNeil
- Celticfan383
- DragonFire1024
- Steven Fruitsmaak
- Matt
- FellowWikiNews
- Auroranorth
- Anonymous101
- Bawolff
- Blood Red Sandman
[edit] Comments
[edit] Making this challenging
So far so good with the quiz, its actually turned out harder than I expected - based on the scores. Who wants to set the quiz next Sunday? I'd like to be putting up a score then. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- I could do it, though I'd prefer to see several others try first, because I wasn't expecting to be the sole person thus far to get full marks, and I don't want to make it impossible. I daresay lots of people will fancy it, and I can wait but if not, I'll take it willingly. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 22:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- How about 10 - 15 questions, relativley easy, but only if you've been keeping up with the news, and updated every Sunday. Thunderhead - (talk) 22:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- My idea was 7 questions, taken from one story of each day over the past week. I didn't totally manage that for the current quiz as I was busy/distracted, so I think I've a couple of questions from the same day. --Brian McNeil / talk 11:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- How about 10 - 15 questions, relativley easy, but only if you've been keeping up with the news, and updated every Sunday. Thunderhead - (talk) 22:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- I've finished a quiz for Sunday. Celticfan383 11:08, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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- I prefer 10 questions, because it gives a score on 10. I think 1 sports story is max, plus stories on ignored topics (Africa!) should get priority. It's also nice to have some images, I believe. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- We should put as many images in as possible, it makes it look a lot better. TheFearow 21:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- I prefer 10 questions, because it gives a score on 10. I think 1 sports story is max, plus stories on ignored topics (Africa!) should get priority. It's also nice to have some images, I believe. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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I think the author of this quiz is doing a good job at balancing making it challenging with making it realistic --Anonymous101 19:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks again, the only thing that would be nice would be if others contributed to the quiz as well so that I'm not the only one this is relying upon. I know others have supported this quiz in the past but I think we should take turns more frequently. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other langs
Have any of the other language Wikinews sites picked this up yet? --Brian McNeil / talk 08:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Just to go further on this, the extension wasn't on all languages - I got a query from de and grabbed Brion in IRC to fix that. There is a translated version of our quiz (this week's) on the German Wikinews. I also notice a couple of de. contributors posting scores. :)
- Oh, and who's on the case for this Sunday? --Brian McNeil / talk 07:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- I prepared something which User:Ironiridis will hopefully finish. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- Check the interwiki on the project page, es.wikinews has put up a quiz. :D --Brian McNeil / talk 14:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
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- As it seems, it.wikinews had already put up a quiz, though hadn't linked from here. Already added 'it' interwiki. Regards, Jurock (reply here) 15:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
From the looks of things the Germans are currently just translating our quiz and adding their articles where they have them. This means when you get to their answers page you have even more articles than ours. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Auto-updating
Hey,
I developed a system using the time parserfunc so we can prepare weekly quizes on subpages and make it auto update when necessary. See Wikinews:Dynamic quiz. It uses the week num, so old quizes are archived, can still be taken, and can be prepared infinitely in advance. What do you think? TheFearow 22:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Its cool, but It should just be like a 10 question quiz that you update each week. 10 questions are cooler.Flubeca
- I'll update to 10Q then. TheFearow 04:05, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- I put in this weeks/last weeks, and am working on one for next week. Who thinks we should update for this new format, that makes it archive and auto update, and easy to prepare for the next week. TheFearow 21:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'll update to 10Q then. TheFearow 04:05, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
If the problem is that updating on monday, then why dont we update the quiz on monday! Not too hard to change. Why don't we use this new system? TheFearow | userpage | contribs 23:08, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- The idea is to have a quiz on Sunday to review the news of the past week... on monday, a new week starts. No need to adapt the original idea to an auto-updating system that doesn't fit it. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- I dont get whats wrong with monday - then we can include news from every day of the last week, including sunday. Monday is the start of the week in the time the server uses. TheFearow | userpage | contribs 23:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- Sunday is a day of relaxation for much of the world. A time to do pointless, but pleasing, things like the quiz. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- Using #time, its fairly easy to make it change on any day of the week. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm using the week number from time - if you want to update it to make it use sunday, feel free. Matt | userpage | contribs 23:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yes that would be a good consensus, don't know how to do it myself so please implement Bawolff's idea. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm using the week number from time - if you want to update it to make it use sunday, feel free. Matt | userpage | contribs 23:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Using #time, its fairly easy to make it change on any day of the week. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Sunday is a day of relaxation for much of the world. A time to do pointless, but pleasing, things like the quiz. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- I dont get whats wrong with monday - then we can include news from every day of the last week, including sunday. Monday is the start of the week in the time the server uses. TheFearow | userpage | contribs 23:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
19 should be right. Bawolff ☺☻ 14:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, this will auto-change every sunday. If there is no quiz for a week, it will display last weeks and yell and scream at you. Bawolff ☺☻ 14:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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- I tweaked it some. Using {{#time}}, without a time/date to use, causes it to use the date and time that the current page was last converted into xhtml which can be way off due to caching. Using relative dates/time without any date/time present causes it to be relative to that date/time, rather then using the current date/time. This was noticeable to a Wikinewie when logged out. --darklama 21:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Easy addition of scores
Does this look interesting? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Simple_Forms#SimpleForms_Usage_Examples or is it risking more problems using this with the quiz extension? --Brian McNeil / talk 08:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- The quiz extension is for quizes, this probably wouldnt work that well, as it would require a lot more work. I think we should stick with the Quiz extension for now. TheFearow | userpage | contribs 21:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm with Fearow on his one, I think, but that's getting a touch out of my depth... Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 19:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
My thinking was that with this extension we could have a form displayed when you submit your answers that allows you to input your score and auto-adds it to the talk page. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:19, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- Registered users can now do that with a gadget in preferences. It may still have some bugs but I will try it next week. --User:Anonymous101 09:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problem
The current method of linking to the version of the quiz under the scores section may not work well. If we're going to use week numbers then it needs to link to that. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Answer to question should be re-worded
Under the question "Which of the following statements about the doping case against Floyd Landis is not true?", it says that the correct answer was "The cyclist "might" be stripped of his title of Tour de France 2007 winner". In the article it says in the first sentence, "2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis "will" be stripped of his title after test results revealed, Friday, the cyclist used synthetic testosterone during the competition." Some people may think the word "might" and "will" as the same meaning. I suggest, along with Nzgabriel, that this should be re-worded. —FellowWiki Newsie 02:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
- On further research I have now noticed it says in the question about the 2007 Tour de France. Landis 'won' the 2006 title. (unsigned in Nzgabriel). 125.236.183.151 07:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] quite tough
8/10 .
i found the world quiz quite tough .i enjoyed participating.i look forward to more new quizzes.
- You may have found it tough, but you got a pretty good score. The quiz goes up sometime on a Sunday, although if we end up waiting on someone from the U.S. doing the last couple of questions it can be kinda late. Oh, and there's a scores section on the page, you edit that section and add * x/10 (comment if any) ~~~~. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Awesome!
This is the greatest thing ever! I love it!
- Great! If you go back to the project page you'll see there's versions in German, Italian, and Spanish. We've had pretty much all positive feedback for the quiz, so... see you next Sunday? --Brian McNeil / talk 10:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Not updated
I knew this would happen, we get a great new feature and then after a few weeks, no one can be bothered updating this. This is a terrible sign why Wikinews may, in the future, fail. Becaue no one can no longer be bothered. 202.124.104.19 20:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but we've had a few big problems lately and we have been very busy. You could update it if you want, or one of us should get around to it soon. Matt/TheFearow | userpage | contribs 20:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- No, some of us actually have real lives and cannot always update the quiz. I was busy and there are users like Brianmc who have been updating the quiz every week. There are users that are willing to update, in fact, I will ask them to update this Sunday's quiz. If you are complaining, then you should update it. —FellowWiki Newsie 21:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Great initiative
I was just notified of this by Brian McNeil the other day - I just wanted to say that I think this is a great initiative. I'm active on Wikiversity, so it's a big buzz to see something developed for there modified in such a cool way. Unfortunately, I gave up about a third way through this week's quiz, as I haven't been following much news this week. <sheepish glance> All the best, Cormaggio 20:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Also, there's a link to this page from v:Quiz - any ideas how to make the links better on this interwiki project? Cormaggio 20:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Glad you at least had a go Cormaggio, we're really pleased to have the quiz extension. It is a natural addition to a news site - a form of positive reinforcement that if you know what's going on you'll do well. The extension could probably do with some way to automatically post the score on talk or a sub-page, but as it is we get a lot of people prepared to 'fess up' to doing badly in the quiz. It helps make us see each other more as human beings and work together better. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Border of Turkey and Iraq.
U.S. President Bush promised Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan support after recent clashes with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Where does Turkey border Iraq?
This question is quite ambiguous, but Turkey boards Iraq to the Northwest and Iraq boarders Turkey to the Southeast, the questioner got the answers mixed up, I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
69.105.97.149 19:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right, sorry for that, you get a bonus point! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- Good to know, thanks! :)
Blindman shady 23:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
P.S.:Yes that was me not signed in.
- I remember that one, if you're using that format again it should really be "Which of Turkey's borders does it share with Iraq?" Turkey's southeastern border is shared with Iraq. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Good to know, thanks! :)
[edit] washington a city?
"Two computer discs containing the personal data of 25 million U.K. citizens were found out this week to be missing. They were sent from a Revenue & Customs office in what British city?" should be changed to "Two computer discs containing the personal data of 25 million U.K. citizens were found out this week to be missing. where were they sent from?"
meant i got it wrong :( as i knew about Washington being in the uk but im fairly sure its a town
[edit] Longer end of year quiz
Sorry Anonymous101, I was working on a quiz of the year in my userspace and didn't realise someone else was doing the same. Mine is longer, and I spent quite a lot of time on it, so I hope you don't mind using it instead. the wub "?!" 16:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question 49
The PPP is now run jointly between Bilawal Bhutto (son) and Asif Ali Zardari (husband). 84.69.244.23 19:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] {{flag}}
The quiz has been flagged since October 2007 (link). I'm pretty sure there's no current discussion on the quiz, so can we get the flag removed? Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 04:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
- The flag is automatic and appears when a new quiz is needed --Anonymous101 Talk 18:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


