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Mark Pilgrim, a Common card
Mark Pilgrim is a software developer, writer, and advocate of free software.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,100
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Mark Pilgrim quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mark Pilgrim card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Formerly an ______ architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group, he started working at Google in March 2007.
Answer
accessibility. Formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group, he started working at Google in March 2007. From the Mark Pilgrim article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, he moved to Brave.
Answer
2010s. In 2018, he moved to Brave. From the Mark Pilgrim article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arthur Benjamin. Arthur Benjamin 63 · Mark Pilgrim 58 · Liv Strömquist 55 · Radio Tave 52 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.
- He authored a popular blog, and has written several books, including Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group, he started working at Google in March 2007.
- In 2018, he moved to Brave.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mark Pilgrim article was read about 8,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Mark Pilgrim
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mark Pilgrim (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TimBray, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
