WIKI WILD WEST

THERE’S A SWEET SPOT FOR STORYTELLING THAT STRADDLES THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

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