Wikipedia talk:TWA/Portal
| Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Mission 4 | Mission 5 | Mission 6 | Mission 7 |
| Say Hello to the World | An Invitation to Earth | Small Changes, Big Impact | The Neutral Point of View | The Veil of Verifiability | The Civility Code | Looking Good Together |
More funky, or...
...less funky.
'Sit down, have a cup. While you're here something to muse on:'
- Think about what an awesome trip you're on,
- How many millions of people benefit from Wikipedia every day,
- How marvelous it is that people all over the world have collaborated to create this unique resource,
- How important sharing knowledge is,
- How people working together over time can do amazing things.
Hope that was an inspiring musing. 😎-----😇 all to help u guys!
Get help
[edit]Need help with something in The Wikipedia Adventure?
- You can drop by the Teahouse where friendly hosts will assist you
- You can pop into live IRC chat to talk to someone
- You can leave a question right here
What to do next
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Tips for feedback
[edit]Tell us what you liked about it, where we could improve, and what you learned
- How you can help
- Play the game all the way through. Do you get stuck anywhere? Is anything unclear?
- Finish the game if you only played a few missions: Give some attention to missions 5-7 (which have been tested much less)
- Start over fresh with a new account: Like User:OcaasiTWA17 (these are legitimate alternate testing accounts and are not considered sockpuppets)
- Try a different browser: If you used Safari, try Firefox (or Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera...)
- Show the game to a friend or family member to see how they like it and if they get stuck anywhere
- In your feedback, please include any of your thoughts on
- text instructions within the game
- graphic placement
- bugs in the tour mechanics
- your web browser
- your screen resolution
- which step of the tour you were on if something didn't work (see the step= in the url)
- what you liked
- what you didn't like
- what you think would work better
- your thoughts on the design: the theme, the guide, the characters, the colors, the images, the sounds
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Feedback
[edit]- What I liked
That it was interactive and quite fun while being very educational! ...
- What I didn't like
That I couldn't really tell what our travel companion is, I think they're a moth? Very cute regardless! ...
- What I wanted more of
I don't really know ...
- What was unnecessary
I don't think any of it is really unnecessary, maybe a little extra, but nothing was unnecessary. It was all informative and helped me learn my way around the site better. ...
- Any other thoughts you want to share
I think maybe I missed it, but maybe it the adventure game should be easier to get to? I was using my badges to get back to it lol. I think the folk who came up with and made it a reality really have a love for education and helping others, so for that I think they should keep doing things like this so that they can help others more in the future! ...
--NibsTheReader (talk) 18:32, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
That I couldn't really tell what our travel companion is, I think they're a moth? Very cute regardless!
-> that made me chuckle.I think maybe I missed it, but maybe it the adventure game should be easier to get to?
-> you can always type "WP:TWA" or in full "Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure" into the search box to find things. Wikipedia is so big that if everything is easy to get to nothing is.I think the folk who came up with and made it a reality really have a love for education and helping others, so for that I think they should keep doing things like this so that they can help others more in the future!
-> I'm not those folk (I merely took over maintaining it after they left), but I'm sure Ocaasi and the other developers at WP:TWA/About will appreciate the compliment.- Thank you for playing, and glad you enjoyed the adventure. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:58, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
Feedback
[edit]- What I liked
It was a really nice introduction. I really liked that you "post" multiple changes during the adventure. For me that took out much of the stress of hitting that button for the first time.
- What I didn't like
Sometimes the dialogue box lies above the site and covers other info that might be important. Might be nice to make the boxes movable
- What I wanted more of
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- What was unnecessary
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- Any other thoughts you want to share
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--Chime105 (talk) 21:22, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for playing. Totally agreed re the positioning of the dialogue box being awkward, but that's technically non-trivial to implement. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:27, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
Feedback
[edit]- What I liked
The Wikipedia Adventure taught me the basics of editing Wikipedia. That means it has fulfilled its purpose for me. Great!
--Fnertan (talk) 12:29, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- The steps were easy to understand, which was very good for learning.
- Other people have gone into greater detail in their feedback, but I just wanted to write what I found the most important.
- Happy editing! Fnertan (talk) 12:43, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for playing, and glad you enjoyed the adventure! * Pppery * it has begun... 16:53, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
Feedback
[edit]- What I liked
Really enjoyed the upbeat tone, and learning about wikipedia! There is genuinely useful and helpful info, and I enjoyed it. It worked on my browser Arc pretty well, so happy about that too.
- What I didn't like
There were occasional text bits with no period, or formatting which was slightly off putting. The mission would occasionally also just pause or freeze once I had already published/made changes. This happened a few times during Mission 3 where you're instructed to bold Earth. I had to restart missions a couple of times, and try reloading, undoing and redoing edits since the text box would either not come up or was just stuck and didn't realize I had already published.
- What I wanted more of
Learning more about how to edit, format, how to communicate and what makes a 'good' article.
- What was unnecessary
The sound effects lol. They didn't play automatically (which was sad) and would have made it super fun!
- Any other thoughts you want to share
Wikipedia's formatting tools seem quite intimidating but this really helps and simplifies. I had a lot of fun using it, and I learned new things too. I do wish this was somewhere on the home page of new users, or more prominent on the "How to Edit" page - it feels like it's hiding away. Thank you to whoever developed this - great tool!
--Girl so confusing (talk) 09:04, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for playing, and thank you for the feedback. If you have specific wording suggestions (i.e add a period here) I would be willing to look at them, although some of the lack of formatting is intentional to teach you how to format IIRC. And the rest, well, I've never been able to reliable reproduce errors of that sort as they depend a lot on your environment, so all I can say is that I'm sorry you ran into so many technical issues. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:45, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
Feedback
[edit]Feedback
[edit]- What I liked
The badges! It's nice to decorate my user page :) Thank you very much for the great tutorial!
- What I didn't like
I copied the reply and posted it, but I did not get a pop-up window to continue, so I had to reply again. For both WillKomen and GaiaGirl86. Luckily, it worked the second time. Otherwise, I was worried I might have had to keep sending replies :O
- What I wanted more of
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- What was unnecessary
In the tutorial on adding headers, the header text was white the same as the page background since on the right hand column I have Wikipedia set to "Dark" mode. I had to switch to Light mode to see them.
- Any other thoughts you want to share
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