# Wikirandompedia - Sports Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 15, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953 "2022-11-15T13:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/1 "2022-11-15T13:51:42Z")
I’ve noticed that when I click on “random article” on the Wikipedia home page, it often brings up an athlete. To play this game: From the home page, click on “random article” repeatedly until you arrive at a page for an athlete, counting your clicks as you go. Then post your number of clicks. You may not post consecutive numbers unless an entire day has passed from your last post (and yours is the most recent). The person with the **fewest** number of clicks and the person with the **highest** number of clicks wins absolutely nothing. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/2 "2022-11-15T13:53:09Z")
**11** Oh, we have to post at least 5 characters. I guess we are commenting too, then. Brahim Konaté, soccer (ok, football) player. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/3 "2022-11-15T14:36:17Z")
Five Len Watters (1898-1986), American football player and coach Never heard of him before right now. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/4 "2022-11-15T14:44:46Z")
Four Arthur Hoare, English cricketer, 1871-1941 ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/5 "2022-11-15T14:48:41Z")
Three clicks to cricketer [Roger Dermont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dermont). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/6 "2022-11-15T14:53:06Z")
**12** [**Daniel Pinta Quigley**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quigley) is a four time world professional [kickboxer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickboxing) from [Derry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry), [Northern Ireland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland). ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/7 "2022-11-15T14:55:59Z")
Well, I finally got one but it took 34 clicks. **Ephraim Lerkin (born 27 November 1997) is a Papua New Guinean [track and field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_and_field) athlete** I did get some athletic events (a women’s hockey tournament, for one) but you said a person, so there you are. I was wondering why; it can’t be that Wikipedia bases your “randoms” on what you normally search for, because I search for hockey players all the time. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/8 "2022-11-15T15:06:19Z")
4 clicks to Richard Olsen, a Danish rower who participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/9 "2022-11-15T15:06:45Z")
My mother is planning to get a Cadillac CTS tomorrow (as her 2nd car for Florida; yes she is a snowbird). Third hit is the Cadillac ATS, and they have one of those at the dealership too. Oh, my first athlete is John Wheatley (cricketer), 10 clicks. I assume a disambiguation page doesn’t count (9th was for Sakai, 1st on the list is a Japanese wrestler). ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/10 "2022-11-15T17:27:03Z")
I was going to say that for me, random article always brings me to a place - but then I got this: 1. Place 2. Place 3. Susanne Müller, German field hockey player ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/11 "2022-11-15T18:21:57Z")
One click: Dinko Felić, a Bosnian-born Norwegian footballer who plays for FC Linköping City. Doesn’t seem to be all that notable of a player. Okey dokey. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/12 "2022-11-15T18:52:32Z")
1. > **Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yurkevich** ([Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language): Александр Михайлович Юркевич; 22 May 1942 – 25 June 2011) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from [Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia) who won a European title in 1967 and a world title in 1969. I was mostly getting eastern european and asian villages ! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikirandompedia-sports-edition/974953/13 "2022-11-15T20:39:22Z")
**3** Mehran Alighadr, an Iranian professional futsal player. And today I learned that _futsal_ is five-a-side indoor soccer played on a smaller field. mmm