WIKI WILD WEST
Have you ever fallen down a ‘wiki-hole’? Or played Six Degrees of Wikipedia, finding the shortest hyperlink path from, say, Denzel Washington to the page for Boring, Oregon? The truth is, we’d gamified online encyclopaedias long before writer Joannes Truyens got to them.
“There’s an immediate literacy there,” he says. “Wikipedia as a medium lends itself to non-linear storytelling.”
The goal, is to solve a murder by digging through a near-future version of the site—bouncing between pages, unpicking the revision history as events unfold, and finding the human drama hidden between the lines of dry, matter-of-fact prose.
