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Uncommon card · Science
Crowdsourcing, an Uncommon card
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services, including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances, for payment or as volunteers.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 166
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 166 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Crowdsourcing quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Crowdsourcing card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word crowdsourcing is a ______ of "crowd" and "outsourcing".
Answer
portmanteau. The word crowdsourcing is a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing". From the Crowdsourcing article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing 92 · Yusuf al-Qaradawi 88 · Social psychology 80 · Fiat Uno 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digital platforms to attract and divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result.
- Crowdsourcing is not limited to online activity, however, and there are various historical examples of crowdsourcing.
- The word crowdsourcing is a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Crowdsourcing article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Crowdsourcing
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Testbirds GmbH, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
