wikiAata is the place where you can play the 'wikipedia game'.
1. Getting Started
The objective of the game is simple: You have to go from a starting Wikipedia article to an ending article using only the hyperlinks within the articles.
1.1. To play on wikiaata you need to Sign in using your Google Account. No additional sign up is required.
Note: You already have a Google Account if you use Gmail or Orkut. Or you can Sign up for free!
1.2. To start playing, click on the Start Playing! button. You'll be shown a 'Puzzle' in a tabular view like the screenshot below.
Each puzzle consists of a start Wikipedia page and an end page. You can click on the blue links which point to other wikipedia pages.
The page corresponding to the link will open in the adjacent tab. You have to reach the end page within the specified number of clicks allowed for the puzzle.
1.3. When you reach the target page, you will be able to rate the puzzle and submit your solution. On acceptance of your solution( immediately) your rating will be updated and your next puzzle loads up. The points you receive on successfully solving the puzzle depends on the time you take to solve it and varies between 0.1 and 0.2 per puzzle.
1.4. Incase you don't like the current puzzle or you want to come back to it later( refer Puzzle Filters section), you can skip the puzzle and move on. You dont receive any points when you skip a puzzle.
2. Puzzle Filters
Filters let you choose the type of puzzles you want to solve.
2.1. There are three kinds of filters you can use. a.) Solve skip'ed puzzles. b.) Solve puzzles belonging to selected categories. c.) Solve puzzles created by selected authors.
2.2. To setup filters click on the MyFilters hyperlink on the top right corner of the page. This will take you to a screen like one shown below.
2.3. Click on edit to modify your filters. The various radio buttons have the following meaining:
No Filter is the default option which means no filtering will be applied and you get all puzzles in decreasing order of the puzzle's rating.
Categories will filter puzzles belonging to the below listed categories.
Subscriptions will filter puzzles created by the authors in active subscriptions box.
New/Skipped Puzzles This lets you solve puzzles you skip'ed previously. Note that currently the filters described above only work in New Puzzles .
2.4. To add a category which gets applied when you choose Categories filter, enter the category in the textbox and click add.
To remove a category click on the 'X' button next to it.
2.5. To add/remove an author to be used for Subscriptions filter, use the shuttle listbox buttons.
Note that to add a author to this box you should click on the +PuzzleInfo link in a puzzle created by that author and then click on the +Subscribe link in the popup shown.
The below screen-shot shows the link.
3. MultiPlayer Rooms
Create a multiplayer room and play with your friends real-time! Multi-player rooms let you and your friends solve the same puzzle - collabaratively or competitively.
3.1. To create a multiplayer room, click on the Create a Room button. This will create a room for you and take you to it.
You will be the owner of this room and will control the flow of the game for this room.
3.2. This room has a left pane in addition to the tab panel. The left pane has the following:
+InviteURL click on this and share the link with your friends who would like to join this room.
Atmost 12 players can join one room.
Room State state of the room. See section 3.3 below.
Whos Here shows the players who have joined in this room and the number of puzzles they solved in the room.
Icon shows online/offline status of the user.
Chat chat with other players in the room.
3.3. The room can be in one of the following three states:
 | room has a puzzle ready to be solved. Owner can take the room to |
 | a notification to players that owner wants to skip this puzzle, wait for players to respond to it.
The puzzle can still be solved. To load a new puzzle owner has to click on |
 | current puzzle has been solved by a player. The solution found is shown in the left panel. Owner can load
the next puzzle by clicking on |
3.4. Note that the room expires after 8 hours of its creation.
4. Adding Puzzles
You can add your own puzzles too on wikiaata! Players who solve your puzzle can rate them and you will receive those points.
4.1. To add puzzles, click on the Add Puzzle button.
You will be shown a search box where you search for the start page for your puzzle.
After finding your desired start page, click on the Add a puzzle from this page hyperlink as shown in the screenshot below:
4.2. Your selected start page will be shown in a tab view. From here follow the links for the puzzle you wish to create. You can go back to a previous page using the tabs.
4.3. On reaching the desired end page click on Submit button.
You will be asked to enter categories( tags) you wish to add for the puzzle. These are used to filter puzzles.
Some guidelines: Dont make the puzzle too arbitrary or too tough. Puzzles which are based on some meaningful link will be better received by players.