User:Jimbo Wales/Boston/Quiz answers
- What is today's featured article?
- Gender role at the time. See the Main Page for today's correct answer.
- Two people were recently elected to the Wikimedia foundation board. What are their Wikipedia usernames?
- Angela and Anthere
- The arbitration committee is having an election soon. Besides User
- Raul654, name one person who is running. : 172, Snowspinner, Ambi, Sam Spade, David Gerard, Jwrosenzweig, Lir, or Misterrick
- One featured article was so controversial, that after being put on the main page it quickly generated an edit war and had to be replaced (by Go). What article was that?
- Zionism
- Of the large Wikipedias (10+ admins), which language Wikipedia has the highest ratio of Admins/user?
- Swedish
- Which language Wikipedia has the highest ratio of articles/native speaker?
- Polish
- What artificial-language Wikipedia has the tlh abbreviation?
- Klingon
- Wikipedia was started to complement Nupedia, which has since shut down. In what month of what year did Nupedia shut down?
- September, 2003
- Who wrote the first Wiki software?
- Ward Cunningham
Committees:
- Harmonious editing club: Andrewa
- Association of Members' Advocates : Lord Emsworth
- Welcoming committee : Isomorphic
- Mediation Committee : sannse
- Arbitration Committee : Delirium
Real names:
- Corey Burger is Burgundavia
- Daniel Mayer is Maveric149
- Erik Möller is Eloquence
- Gary Curtis is Gaz
- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen is Cimon avaro
- Stacey Robert Greenstein is UtherSRG
Photos:
(see [1] for a copy in case this image is deleted)
Hyacinth, Elf, Nohat
Seth Ilys, Adam Carr, Tim Starling
![[1]](http://wikisearch.org/pic/Bostonquiz2004pics.jpg){kind=link}
Answers to round three
[edit]- Anemia or Anaemia
- Dialog or Dialogue
- Fiber or Fibre
- Flavor or Flavour
- Gray or Grey (Neither! It's a disambiguation page at both variants)
- Humor or Humour
- Jewelry or Jewellery
- Judgment or Judgement
- Pajamas or Pyjamas
- Theater or Theatre
Answers to round four
[edit]- How many times does the word Wikipedia appear in Google?
- Approx. 11,400,000. See Google:Wikipedia for today's correct answer. (23,300,000 by February 10, 2005)
- In which year was the Boston Molasses Disaster?
- 1919
- How many edits were there to the Wikipedia article in June 2004?
- 91
- Boston, Massachusetts is named after the town of Boston in which county of England?
- Lincolnshire
- The monkeypox article is used in an example of what in the Wikipedia article?
- Vandalism (Sarah Lane vandalised the monkeypox article live on air in June 2003 by writing "Sarah Lane is the coolest! But she doesn't have monkeypox.")
- Which famous event took place in Boston on December 16, 1773?
- Boston Tea Party
- Which Linux distribution are Wikimedia's web servers currently running on?
- Fedora Core
- According to Rambot (or the United States Census Bureau) what percentage of Boston is water?
- 50% (Actual: 45.98%)
- Name two awards Wikipedia won in 2004 that are mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
- The Prix Ars Electronica and The Webby Awards
- A smoot is a unit of distance used for measuring which Boston bridge?
- Harvard Bridge