This courtesy of Helen Baxter from Mowhawk Media on National Radio’s “Virtual World” segment this week …Wiki Groaning is a Wikipedia game in the spirit of Google Whacking.
To find a Wiki Groan pick a useful general interest Wikipedia article. Then, find a related article that is longer, but at the same time, completely trivial.
Some examples:
- Combat vs. Jedi Lightsabre Combat
- Latin vs. Klingon
- Motor Vehicle Theft vs. Dude, Where’s My Car?
- Marriage vs. Married … With Children
- Military Base vs. All you base are belong to us
:-)
The show is half and hour and this piece is near the end. But, listen to the whole thing as they also cover Ponoko and PlanHQ, two exciting Wellington-based web businesses.