Wikipedia art
Smuggling short fiction into Wikipedia entries is what Jesse Walker finds in at least one 'pedia entry. A biographical story lived for a while between the curious animal and his yellow-hatted pal.
This sort of art-hoax or social narrative hack reminds me of the way Amazon.com inadvertently hosted bits of stories, like the premature Pynchon review, or the way an alleged murderer's wish list vanished from the site. This is different from the stories Amazon supports, such as this story-game.
The Curious George tale and the Wikipedia hacks are another strand of Web 2.0 storytelling, hoaxes or accidental story nodes halfway between pranks and alternate reality games.
Wikipedia as ARG, why not? As long as you play by encyclopedia rules, you should be able to do quite a bit of well-cited, carefully referenced mischief.
Most mainstream Wikipedians are treating it as an MMO of one kind or another, with a weird element of Nomic thrown in for good measure.
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti | September 25, 2008 at 14:44