I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven’t really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum.
At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an entertaining little game to show people during beers, and also a project similar (ish) to something Daanvr was working on (I think it was Suggestion-Engine-Commons-prototype ?)
Upgrades
During the hackathon, and in the weeks following, WikiCrowd went through quite a number of changes
- The YAML config files for the pre-calculated depicts statements are now on Commons for all to edit
- Generation of the questions has been spruced up to stop it breaking as it gets deeper into category trees
- Generation can now be triggered in the UI, as can deleting pending questions
- The old one by one image mode was removed, and instead replaced by a grid mode
- More categories and depict options were added
- A custom grid view was added, allowing users to specify their own category and or Wikidata item
- Ability to zoom in on an image being displayed
- Addition of “levels” of questions
- Display of Wikidata labels and descriptions in the UI (Making use of the new REST API)
