WMF Quizzes/2025

Specification

Anything under the sun is possible; however, questions will primarily be based on WMF and the projects it covers.
Participants will need a modern device that can connect to the internet (most likely quizizz.com). The questions will be on the participants' device and the main screen (for in-person attendees; virtual participants can work with a single device, but are recommended to have two (one for the questions, one for the livesteam).
MediaWiki is included, and questions may require some technical knowledge.
This event is expected to be hybrid; I'll be online and both in-person and virtual attendees should be able to attend.
The questions will be released publicly; this event will not be recorded.
Questions are timed, and participants will normally be given anywhere up to two minutes to answer the question. Questions may use any of the formats in https://support.quizizz.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409852287513-Question-Types-Explained, however, questions will not use a format that cannot be automatically scored.
Similarly, any form of audio or video may be used as part of the question – please let me know if this could be a problem (including users that are colour-blind) - I'd like to make this as accessible as possible.
Each question is worth five points. Some questions may contain sub-parts, which will be scored proportionally.
No calculators, online resources (including LLMs such as ChatGPT). Formally, this is closed-book. The total number of questions is 16.
The raw score (i.e, out of 5 × number of questions) will be used for ranking purposes. The "total score", which also takes into account the time taken to answer the question (the faster you get, the more points, as long as you get the question correct) will be used only in case of a tiebreaker.
Despite best efforts, there may be errors in some of the questions. For ranking purposes this would mean that the final data would be released after some time (say 48 hours) to allow any corrections (and scoring updates) participants report.
The quiz will be similar to the 2024 edition.

It is important to note that there is no expectation to get every question right; questions in this quiz will span a wide range of difficulty levels and there will be a few that will be very challenging, just as there would be a few questions that participants should be able to access easily. This is by design.

The questions

The total score is out of 80.

The top three participants got 75%, 73.8% and 71.3% (60, 59 and 57 out of 80 respectively). Solutions are available here.

Question 1

A user wants to use Wikidata to find the number of Wikipedia languages with an article about the Swahili language. Which link should they use?

Assume that the options are prefixed with https://www.wikidata.org/

Lexeme:Q7838
Swahili
Project:Swahili
Q7838
Kiswahili

Timer: 60 seconds. Also the prefix link should be https://www.wikidata.org/wiki, not https://www.wikidata.org/.

Question 2

Arrange the following projects with their former logos:


Column A	Column B
Wikipedia
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks
Wikivoyage

Timer: 60 seconds

The logos may differ slightly from what's on the quiz, but the question is otherwise valid. One point for each correct match.

Question 3

The number of publicly-editable WMF wikis N satisfies which of the following inequalities?

10² < N < 10³
10³ < N < 10⁴
10⁴ < N < 10⁵
10⁵ < N < 10⁶
10⁶ < N < 10⁷

Timer: 30 seconds

Question 4

When doomscrolling on YouTube, in the descriptions part of a video, you see this: Licence: Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed) You use yt-dlp to download the video, and then want to import it to a WMF project. Which WMF project would be the best choice?

English Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikifunctions
Wikiversity
Wikidata

Timer: 45 seconds

Question 5

Consider the following scenario on Meta-Wiki:

User A is a steward and uses Special:GlobalGroupPermissions to create an empty global role C
User B exists on one public wiki: a brand-new global SUL account with Meta-Wiki (zero edits), and a brand-new account is created on CheckUser Wiki for user B by user A using Special:CreateAccount
User A creates assigns global role C to B

Select all rights that must be in C for B to be able to, by themselves, become the bureaucrat of CheckUser Wiki (checkuser.wikimedia.org). The number of rights in C must be minimised as far as possible.

Timer: 120 seconds. Select all that apply, no partial marking

Edit user rights of users on other wikis (userrights-interwiki)
Edit all user rights (userrights)
Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
Adjust CentralAuth authorizations (centralauth-modify)
Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)

Question 6

Consider the following segment from a video published by NOS, a Dutch broadcaster.

Using an online translator, this becomes

Mabel for example, the widow of Prince Friso. First there was this... about the information she gave when she married the prince. About her ex Klaas Bruinsma, drug criminal. Suddenly it became this... adjusted from a computer in, yes, Huis Ten Bosch palace.

What is this fragment most likely relating to?

Timer: 120 seconds (including playing the video)

Video = next 22 seconds from https://youtu.be/vD0giHwtztg?feature=shared&t=323

Fanboys of a certain organisation ensuring that the wikipage of that organisation is “positive”
A person or group trying to make themselves look better via their article on Wikipedia
A government blocking webpages that they do not like
A person complaining to the police that their Wikipedia article is “defamation”
A random user correcting a legitimate error in an article about someone else

Question 7

Which of the following could/cannot be used for a new Wikisource in that language?

A simplified variant of another language
A conlang (constructed or artificially created language)
An extinct language
A dialect of French
A language with a standard Unicode ending

Timer: 90 seconds

Categorise each option into "Could be used" and "Cannot be used". 1 point for each correct categorisation.

Question 8

On a certain Wikipedia policy page, when translated into English using an online translator, the following terms can be observed: "Mayavi-Lutapi" memberships, Pseudo-idols, Wikipedia tigers, using multiple memberships, official policy, escape from other editors, falsely accused of being someone else's idol, Aparamoorthy Administrators. What’s the equivalent of this page on the English Wikipedia?

NPOV (Neutral point of view)
BLP (Biographies of living persons)
RFA (Request for Adminship)
Oversight
Sockpuppetry

Timer: 60 seconds

Question 9

For which of the following roles is it required to publicly disclose your real name?

Steward
Board of Trustees
AffCom (Affliate Committee)
U4C (Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee)
CRC (Case Review Committee)

Timer: 90 seconds

Categorise each option into "Required to disclose" and "Not required to disclose". 1 point for each correct categorisation.

Question 10

On Wikispecies, a project where the main page is protected from editing and moving to an autoconfirmed level, an LTA (long-term abuser) called Main page vandalisers does the following (and only that):

They create accounts on the project, and do nothing for five days

They then vandalise the main page during an opportunistic period

Which of the following would be the simplest and most effective solution to handle this LTA?

Increase the protection to full-protect
Add an abuse filter to detect main-page vandalism
Raise the thresholds for an account to be automatically confirmed
Create a bot that would detect accounts doing nothing for five days and block them
Use FlaggedRevs to require an administrator to “approve” edits on the main page from new users

Timer: 60 seconds

Question 11

In the context of WMF and its projects, what does the above image best refer to?

A former VCS (version-control system) used for MediaWiki development
A former mascot used by WMF
A former system used to track and report bugs and requests in MediaWiki and other WMF projects
A former logo used for a WMF project
An internal WMF project that was later cancelled

Timer: 45 seconds

Question 12

Classify the following railway logos as those that can be uploaded into Wikimedia Commons, and those that cannot.

Option A	Option B	Option C	Option D	Option E

Timer: 90 seconds

Classify each option as "Can be uploaded" or "Cannot be uploaded". 1 point for each correct categorisation

Question 13

An anonymous user with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx adds random gibberish in a page P on the German Wikivoyage (if the page does not exist, it is created). For which value of P would it be least likely for an administrator to revert the edit (or delete the page the user created)? Do not consider temporary accounts.

User:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Hauptseite (= Main Page)
Hilfe:Spielwiese (= Help:Playground)
Wikivoyage:Lounge
Österreich (= Austria)

Timer: 60 seconds

Question 14

Match the three countries in Africa with the year they hosted Wikimania.

Column A

Egypt
South Africa
Kenya

Column B

2008
2025
2018

Timer: 30 seconds. $1{\frac {2}{3}}$ points for each correct match

Question 15

What is the output of the following wikitext when executed on the English Wikipedia: {{GENDER:.|a|b}},{{GENDER:.|c|d|e}},{{PLURAL:-1|f|g}},{{#language:en|ru}},{{#formatdate:baba}}? ___, ___, ___, ___, ___

(error) means that MediaWiki reported an error of some kind. (blank) meant that there was no output for that part of the wikitext.

a
b
e
d
g
f
(error message)
(blank)
baba
английский

Timer: 120 seconds.

Fill in one option for each blank. 1 point for each correct categorisation.

Question 16

“Look at the irony here. You are a media organisation and are pressing for a gag order against another media organisation” This was said in the context of the 2024-2025 ANI vs Wikimedia Foundation case. By whom?

Supreme Court of India
High Court of India
An advocate/lawyer of the Wikimedia Foundation
An advocate/lawyer of ANI
A member of the government of India

Timer: 60 seconds