Wikipedia:Trading card game

The Wikipedia trading card game is a trading card game based on Wikipedia, to be developed by the community, and eventually sold (at the cafepress store for wikipedia for instance), with all proceeds going to the Wikimedia foundation. The ultimate goal is fundraising, to help keep Wikipedia running.

The trading card game is currently in development (see here for the original proposal). Anybody is free to help out.

Rules

List rules possibilities here. Rules are a top priority, since they would determine most other aspects of the game, including card design. A concern has been expressed that the game should have collaborative, rather than competitive goals.

Proposed rule sets

• Rules proposal 1 (Discuss) by Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Dittobori)}

• Rules proposal 2 (Discuss) by ♠TomasBat

• Rules proposal 3 (Discuss) by Jon513 (talk)

• Rules proposal 4 (Discuss) by Lithoderm (not yet complete, but still feel free to comment)

• Rules proposal 5 (Discuss) by Certes (talk) and anyone who feels like improving it

Aesthetics

List possibilities for the general aesthetics of card design here (both front and back).

• Two competing design possibilities for the overall deck (top side):

• 
  Design 'A'
• Article-style
  Article-style

Card list

List card possibilities here, along with their corresponding requirements and effects during gameplay.

Card name	Proposed requirement(s)	Proposed function
Wikisloth	none	~ cannot click for Actions
Wikignome	none	You may click ~ to prevent an opponent from deleting a rival's contribution
Founder	Steward, Bureaucrat	There may only be one Founder in play. Click ~ to delete an Editor
Broken Link Edit	none	(-200) Any rival beside you may click an Editor to negate this Edit
Copyvio Edit	none	(-500) You cannot play Actions after you play ~
Edit War Action	Click an Editor	Click one of a rival's Editors
Featured Article Edit	none	(+500) All rivals beside you add 500 to their Contribution
Off-Wiki Plot Action	none	Click two Editors Divide your Contribution into two equal parts (edits-wise). Then, trade each half for half the Contributions of the rivals beside you
Oversighter Editor	none	Administrator Click ~ to remove a card in a Deletion Pile from the game
Canvassing Edit	none	(-100) You can only use ~ on yourself. You gain half the contributions earned from the next player's turn, to a maximum of 50 edits
Wheel-Warring Action	none	Delete one of your Administrators Rivals beside you cannot click Administrators on their next turns
Administrative Rampage Action	Administrator	Delete all Editors, Founder and Bureaucrat are unaffected
TOR Router Editor	none	When ~ comes into play, each rival puts an Editor named "~" into play
Arbcom	none	Nullifies wheel-warring, editwarring and canvassing
Wikibreak	none	miss a draw
Open proxy	none	?
Editing Under the Influence	none	?
Rouge Administrator	none	?
Cabal-screamer	none	?
Wikistalker	none	?
Huggler	Rollbacker	May revert vandalism three times per turn.
ClueBot	none	You are immune to vandalism until your next turn.
POV-pusher	?	?
Wikiholism	none	One of your editors may perform two actions this turn instead of one.
Autoblock	Administrator	?

Card designs

Place images of proposed card designs here.

• 
  Administrator
• 
  Bot (anti-vandalism)
• 
  Bot (content-generating)
• 
  Bot-op
• 
  Bureaucrat
• 
  Checkuser
• 
  Developer
• 
  Rogue user
• 
  Rollbacker
• Rollbacker (2)
  Rollbacker (2)
• 
  Sockpuppet
• 
  Steward
• 
  User
• 
  Vandal
• 
  Wikidragon
• 
  Wikifairy
• 
  Wikiogre
• 
  Wikicar

Finished cards

Approved cards to appear in the final deck should be moved here.

Name possibilities

List your ideas for the game's eventual name here. "Wikipedia trading card game" is the current working title, which will hopefully be replaced by something much cooler.

1. Wiki Battle
2. Blocked!
3. Edit War
4. Wikipedia TCG
5. How about a word from a foreign language that is pertinent? Kanogul ^(talk) ("Tayori"- Japanese for "information", for instance)

Testing

Once completed, the game should be tested extensively to ensure a balanced game. When ready, testing programs and beta versions should be made available here.

Members

Add your name here if you wish to participate.

1. ♠TomasBat
2. -Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Dittobori)}
3. bibliomaniac15 18:41, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
4. Jon513 (talk)
5. Ludwigs2 00:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
6. Queenie 21:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
7. Kingofsouls
8. Kanogul
9.  rdunnPLIB 
10. G2sai (talk) 04:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
11. Teen Sleepover Kid (talk) 06:05, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
12. Globalearth

See also

• Wikimedia fundraising