In tonight's episode of The Amazing Race (a US reality show where contestants race around the world solving clues, treasure-hunt style), one of the puzzles for the contestants while they were in Belgium involved the comic strip Tintin. While the host (Phil) explained a little bit about that strip to the TV audience, the images going across the screen included the infobox from the Wikipedia page on Tintin. The puzzle required the contestants to put on costumes and makeup as instructed, and then figure out what characters they were intended to resemble (Thomson and Thompson). At least one of the teams was shown using Wikipedia (at an Internet cafe) as one of their reference sources to find the correct answer (after they had mis-identified themselves as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton). The judge (dressed as Tintin) accepted any of several names, since the characters in question have different names in different language editions (as itemized on Wikipedia).
So, add this million-dollar-prize televised race to the things that people end up relying on Wikipedia for... let's hope the relevant articles aren't vandalized at the time! -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
