Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2025/Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse

(This page was started the night before March 31 and remained unfinished at the start of Wikipedia's April Fools' Day. I attempted to flesh it out before the end of April Fools' Day to the point it could pass, but due to writer's block, fatigue, and schoolwork as a CS major, I couldn't. I still gave it a shot due to the effort I put in. Still, happy April Fools' Day! - PrincessPandaWiki)

Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse
Developer(s)	Frantic Fun Studios
Publisher(s)	Frantic Fun Studios
Engine	Roblox
Platform(s)	Windows, macOS, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, iOS, Android, Meta Quest
Genre(s)	MMO, party
Mode(s)	Online multiplayer

Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse is an official Wikipedia experience game on the game platform Roblox, developed by Gamefam Studios The Gang Frantic Fun Studios under the license of the Wikimedia Foundation. Set in the massively multiplayer online and party genres, the game has players working together to contribute to Wikipedia through cooperative, arcade-style gamified versions of Wikipedia tasks.

Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse was created as the Wikimedia Foundation’s initiative to promote contribution to Wikipedia by younger audiences, as well as media literacy, informative writing, and collaboration skills. "If Wikipedia is read daily by almost every tween and teenager, then why not have them contribute to Wikipedia itself, so that it can be even better? We’ll also teach them the correct skills for navigating the landscape of Wikipedia and the evolving 21st century."

(Completely unbeknownst to the creator of this joke page, the Wikimedia Foundation is seriously planning a Roblox game to promote Wikipedia. However, this page was made without knowledge of that, and thus goes on its own direction.)

Gameplay

Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse involves players cooperating with each other to contribute to and maintain Wikipedia via gamified tasks of creating and editing articles, obtaining pictures for Wikimedia Commons, dealing with vandals, and such. The experience is meant to be a casual video game translation of the typical Wikipedia experience, not an equivalent to it.

Players are grouped into teams known as WikiProjects. Within a WikiProject, they are to focus on its topic and create and maintain articles related to it. The following WikiProjects in the game are Science, Geography, History and Society, and Entertainment.

The game environment is set on a coastal land with four different settings, each with a base for a WikiProject. WikiProject Science's setting is an Arctic research station, WikiProject Geography's setting is a coniferous woodland campground, History and Society's setting is a desert oasis village, and WikiProject Entertainment's is a suburban city block with deciduous woodland. The sky is light blue in the day and dark indigo in the night, similar to real life, but with digitized effects. Ghostly displays of image and textual excerpts from Wikipedia articles float in the sky.

In the game, Wikipedia is being established, and players create and develop various articles that exist in reality, from Cat to London to Minecraft (subjects have been pre-selected to be appropriate for the target audience, for obvious reasons). Players can find articles to edit by browsing existing articles. When making an edit to an article, the player selects an area of growth and goes through a few randomly selected minigames, such as matching words with blanks in accordance with the Manual of Style. Creating an article requires three or more players, in which they vote for a subtopic of the base's topic and then the subject and then play more minigames than usual.

Articles grow on the content assessment grade scale, from Stub to Start to C to B to Good Article to Featured Article. The amount of edits needed to move an article up to scale exponentially increases the higher the article is. When an article becomes Featured, it is shown on prominent display in the overworld.

Images can be added to articles if there are available freely-licensed images on Wikimedia Commons. To find images for Wikimedia Commons, players can play the Image Hunt minigame, in which they search for images on a browser-like feature and have to figure out which images are freely-licensed and educationally useful.

Occasionally, vandals can be found messing up articles. Players have to find them on their own when browsing articles. When a vandal is found, the player reports them and the vandalism is stopped and reverted.

The currency is Puzzle Pieces, represented by Wikipedia’s puzzle icon. Players can spend Puzzle Pieces on keepsake boxes that give random cosmetics such as pets and particles.

Barnstars

Barnstars serve as the achievements of Wikipedia: Information Powerhouse. Instead of being given by other users, they are automatically given by the game when the player achieves certain objectives.

Keepsake boxes

Keepsake boxes come in the tiers (with rarity chances) and prices in the Store:

• Budget - 250 Puzzle Pieces
  • Common - 80%
  • Uncommon - 10%
  • Rare - 7%
  • Exotic - 3%
  • Legendary - 0%
  • Mythical - 0%
• Standard - 500 Puzzle Pieces
  • Common - 60%
  • Uncommon - 20%
  • Rare - 10%
  • Exotic - 7%
  • Legendary - 2%
  • Mythical - 1%
• Premium - 1,000 Puzzle Pieces
  • Common - 0%
  • Uncommon - 45%
  • Rare - 25%
  • Exotic - 20%
  • Legendary - 7%
  • Mythical - 3%
• High-End - 450 Robux
  • Common - 0%
  • Uncommon - 0%
  • Rare - 50%
  • Exotic - 25%
  • Legendary - 15%
  • Mythical - 10%

Cosmetics

Pets

Common

• Cat
• Dog
• Rabbit
• Chicken
• Duck
• Goose
• Quail
• Hamster
• Guinea pig
• Gerbil
• Mouse
• Rat
• Ferret
• Horse
• Donkey
• Cow
• Sheep
• Pig
• Goat
• Turtle
• Lizard
• Snake
• Frog
• Salamander
• Parakeet
• Goldfish
• Koi
• Betta
• Parakeet
• Canary
• Bee
• Ladybug
• Ant

Uncommon

• Bear
• Raccoon
• Starfish
• American robin
• Chinchilla
• Hedgehog
• Llama
• Camel
• Parrot
• Cockatiel

Rare

• Lion
• Tiger
• Elephant
• Dolphin
• Cougar
• Jaguar
• Cheetah
• Giraffe
• Octopus
• Wolf
• Red fox

Exotic

• Shark
• Spider
• Platypus
• Panda
• Echidna
• Kangaroo
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Arctic fox
• Fennec fox

Legendary

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Stegosaurus
• Apatosaurus
• Velociraptor
• Pterodactyl
• Mammoth
• Sabertooth cat

Mythical

• Dodo
• Dragon
• Kitsune
• Kraken

Particles

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In-game purchases

• 100 Puzzle Pieces - 10 Robux
• 250 Puzzle Pieces - 25 Robux
• 500 Puzzle Pieces - 75 Robux
• 750 Puzzle Pieces - 100 Robux
• 1,000 Puzzle Pieces - 250 Robux
• 2,500 Puzzle Pieces - 350 Robux
• 5,000 Puzzle Pieces - 500 Robux
• 7,500 Puzzle Pieces - 1,000 Robux
• 10,000 Puzzle Pieces - 1,500 Robux

UGC avatar items

Paid

• Wikipedia Globe – Hat item – 100 Robux
• Wikipedia book - Shirt item - 65 Robux
• Wikipe-tan Hair with Puzzle Pieces – Hair item – 150 Robux
• Wikipe-tan's Maid Dress – Dress/Skirt item – 200 Rubux

Free limited

• Angry Mastodon – Back item - 2,500 stock

Earned by finding and reporting 1,000 vandals

Codes (as of April 2025)

Courtesy of Game Rant:

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