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The Wikipedia Fake Band Game

December 12, 2007

Much as toddlers snub the expensive gifts they receive for Christmas and choose to play with the box instead, today's tech-literate youths are wasting the internet's fabulous wealth of knowledge on a silly game called The Wikipedia Fake Band Game.

Of course, by "today's tech-literate youths" we mean "technology journalists". And by "the internet's fabulous wealth of knowledge" we mean "time that should be spent preparing next month's issue of PC Advisor".

The game is very easy. You simply go to Wikipedia and hit the 'random article' button. That's the name of your fake band. Hit it again, and you have the name of your debut album. The next 11 random articles are the tracks. Thus:

Band: Zeta Reticuli

Album: Cristo Rey Network

  1. Thomas 'Clio' Rickman
  2. Android epistemology
  3. Benoît Roux
  4. Académie Colarossi
  5. British Columbia Highway 6
  6. The Best of Princess Superstar
  7. Dan Haseltine
  8. Brain to body mass ratio
  9. California Pizza Kitchen
  10. Diazo
  11. ASA Hall of Fame Stadium

Sounds suspiciously like a Mars Volta record, if you ask us.

Anyway, give it a try!

Posted by: David Price

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Comments

Posted by decent on December 12, 2007 :

that's a great bit of enjoyable writing David. Nice style.
i will keep an eye out for any further material from you.

Posted by mikka on December 13, 2007 :

Aren't we the "David Price (musician)" deleted from wikipedia together with Autobomb (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Autobomb) a while ago :-)?

Posted by erdie on December 14, 2007 :

Another fake band game to play on wikipedia is to actually write an article about a ficticious band or person.

Posted by strawberry_joe on December 17, 2007 :

This is very badly written - not the sort of standard we would normally expect of PC Pro.

Posted by Dylan the depressed football fan on January 6, 2008 :

awww strawberry_joe, have a sense of humor, yea it's not up to snuff, but who cares, some people can be all serious but then just randomly be fun, it's always entertaining

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