Creative Energiser Activity That Sparks Curiosity - Wiki Journey
Creative Energiser Activity That Sparks Curiosity - Wiki Journey is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Assemble your group as part of a virtual meeting.
- Ask each person to open their favourite internet browser.
- Instruct everyone to navigate to the Wikipedia page for a particular person, place or thing, eg Nelson Mandela, or copy & paste the exact URL link via the chatroom.
- When ready, announce a second Wikipedia page for another person, place or thing, eg QANTAS.
- Starting from the first Wikipedia page, challenge each person to click on as many hyperlinks, page after page, until they finally land on the destination Wikipedia page.
- The first person to verify that they have landed on the destination page wins.
- Wiki Journey Creative energiser activity that sparks curiosity online.
- As a creative energiser activity, Wiki Journey encourages curiosity, problem-solving, and friendly competition while creating shared experiences that bring energy and connection to online gatherings.
- Specifically designed for virtual settings, it works well to keep remote participants actively engaged.
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Prompts to use +
Ask each person to open their favourite internet browser.
Instruct everyone to navigate to the Wikipedia page for a particular person, place or thing, eg Nelson Mandela, or copy & paste the exact URL link via the chatroom.
When ready, announce a second Wikipedia page for another person, place or thing, eg QANTAS.
Starting from the first Wikipedia page, challenge each person to click on as many hyperlinks, page after page, until they finally land on the destination Wikipedia page.
The first person to verify that they have landed on the destination page wins.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Creative Energiser Activity That Sparks Curiosity - Wiki Journey. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask each person to open their favourite internet browser.; Instruct everyone to navigate to the Wikipedia page for a particular person, place or thing, eg Nelson Mandela, or copy & paste the exact URL link via the chatroom.; When ready, announce a second Wikipedia page for another person, place or thing, eg QANTAS.; Starting from the first Wikipedia page, challenge each person to click on as many hyperlinks, page after page, until they finally land on the destination Wikipedia page.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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