Celtic Knot Conference 2024/Submissions/Wikipedia usage in successful Basque/Welsh trivia app games

Submission no.

About the submission

Title of the submission

Wikipedia usage in successful Basque/Welsh trivia app games

Type of submission

• Presentation – 20–25 minute presentation. This time includes questions from the audience.

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

Egunean Behin (Once a day) is a Basque language app, a trivia game, highly successful since it was launched in 2019. Currently 40.000 people play it every day. A Welsh version, Cwis Bob Dydd, was launched in collaboration with S4C in 2023, and it's thriving too.

The mechanics of the game require a backend database with thousands of trivia questions (question, correct answer, 2 incorrect answers), and that question database has been populated by various programmatic methods, 1st among them Wikipedia-Wikidata data processing.

For example, Wikidata querying and processing of landmarks of Wales or the Basque Country: get picture, type (castles, town halls, etc...), location by municipality, lat-lon so it can be plotted in a map... then different sets of Q's can be made from that. Show the picture of a landmark and put 3 answers... Plot a map with 3 pins (A, B, C) and ask where Landamark X is located... People data, artworks (movies, books in our languages), sports results, demographic data... many kinds of question types have been developed this way.

This method of question creation not only fills the database with lots of content, it also fulfills another necessity that's deemed very important for the success of Egunean Behin and Cwis Bob Dydd among its users: it's local content, relevant to Basque and Welsh players, that gets into the game, making it more attractive, even adictive (according to some users). So Basque Wikipedia (eu) and Wicipedia (cy) content is key for the game, a fine example of reuse and community building (sharing a game in your language).

Disclaimer: the presenter (me, Luistxo Fernandez), a Basque Wikipedian, is a partner and worker in CodeSyntax, the Basque tech company that created Egunean Behin and Cwis Bob Dydd.

Theme of session

• Visions Forged: Charting Paths in Language Advocacy.

What will attendees take away from this session?

Learn about a project that reusing Wikipedia has created a success story both in Basque and Welsh. It's reproducible in other languages.

Language of presentation

English

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About the author

Author of the submission

Luistxo Fernandez (wikipedia user Luistxo)

E-mail address

LFernandezcodesyntax.com

Country of origin

Basque Country

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

CodeSyntax

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Is this Submission a Draft or Final?

Final

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