A bot playing the Wikipedia game

This project uses Python to play the WikiGame automatically.

Strategies :

• Random : If the end page is not found, chooses a random link
  Unlikely to succeed

• With NLP : Chooses the word closest to the target in the page using similarity computed with spacy

  • Max : similarity is computed as the max similarity between words from the two strings
    Could get stuck in pages about Turkey (country) when trying to get to Bacon

  • Mean : Similarity is computed as the average similarity between words from the two strings
    Better when facing the previous issue

Tools:

• Request to call the Wikipedia API
• BeautifulSoup to parse html
• Spacy to find similarities with NLP

Choose a spacy ressource :

Download ressource (https://spacy.io/models/en) :

• Small :
  python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
• Medium :
  python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
• Large :
  python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

In spacyTools.py choose between 'sm', 'md' and 'lg' by editing the following line :
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')

Run :

python main.py

Example :