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Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by Trufa »

jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

Am I not understanding something? When I linked Obama to Uruguay, Myanmar came up (the only surprising one).

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target...

I went to the Uruguayan wiki page and found nothing on Myanmar and nothing relating to Uruguay on the Myanmar page.

Awesome project btw, great idea.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by ng-user »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #79
jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

make it so that if I visit the page and just click the "go" button, it will use the placeholder examples as the start and end points. i did this and got an error message stating "You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that." that was annoying. the placeholders that were auto chosen were actually really interesting.

'Please' and 'thank you' go a long when requesting additional features for an OSS project.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by jwngr »

turc1656 wrote: post #78

Not sure if you deliberately designed it this way, but I noticed when spot checking some results that it includes the bibliography section links as connections. This seems like it may not be desirable. Example, I did a search that went from the Crusades to Buzz Aldrin and I noticed that Routledge was the first hop from the Crusades. It strikes me as odd that Routledge (a publishing company) would be mentioned on the…

Yeah unfortunately I don't know of any way to differentiate the different types of links. Wikipedia's pagelinks database doesn't different them. I agree it's undesireable but I just cannot figure out how to cull them.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by ateesdalejr »

empath75 wrote: post #37
turc1656 wrote: post #9

Very cool. And a lot less degrees of freedom between my tests than I expected - so far everything has a legitimate 3 degrees when I expected much more. Higgs Boson to Taylor Swift in 3 steps, amazing. Not only that, but 91 ways to get there in just 3 steps. This basically quantifies what my wife and I jokingly refer to "rabbit-holing" online. She'll ask me what I'm reading and it will be something totally unrelated t…

You need to go more obscure -- Fiber Bundle to Lars Ulrich was 4 steps. Calabi-Yau Manifold to Donnie Wahlberg is also 4. I haven't gotten 5 yet.

Got five! https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Living%20Compu...

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by QML »

vanderZwan wrote: post #89
fortythirteen wrote: post #22

Age of Enlightenment -> Consumption of Tide Pods[0] [0] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Age%20of%20Enl...

Interestingly, if you go the other way it blows up: [0] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Consumption%20...

Kind of reminds me of PageRank in someway; the number of "backedges" is not guaranteed to equal number of "forwardedges", hence the difference in number of paths.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by jwngr »

Trufa wrote: post #91
jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

Am I not understanding something? When I linked Obama to Uruguay, Myanmar came up (the only surprising one). https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target... I went to the Uruguayan wiki page and found nothing on Myanmar and nothing relating to Uruguay on the Myanmar page. Awesome project btw, great idea.

[copy of answer from below] The Wikipedia database doesn't differentiate links which appear in the main article versus in the sources or categories sections. It's possible one of the intermediate links is in there. You sometimes need to do a CTRL+f in "View Source" to find the link. Also, the latest Wikipedia dump is from February 2nd, so it's possible the link has been deleted since that date. I'll regenerate my database when the new dump lands in early March.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by spiznnx »

Trufa wrote: post #91
jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

Am I not understanding something? When I linked Obama to Uruguay, Myanmar came up (the only surprising one). https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target... I went to the Uruguayan wiki page and found nothing on Myanmar and nothing relating to Uruguay on the Myanmar page. Awesome project btw, great idea.

It's a directed graph. Your source is Uruguay and your destination is Obama. You'll find Obama on the midpoints.

Opposite direction: no Myanmar https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target...

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by bluetwo »

jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

I would like to hear a little more on how you organized the search and what you are pre-processing and what you calculate on-the-fly. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by jwngr »

vanderZwan wrote: post #90
jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny…

I had a conversation with a friend a few weeks ago that surely this already exists, and if not that someone should make this. Any plans to filter by mutual paths?

I'm definitely not the first to think of it or build a tool for it (lots of similar projects gave me inspiration), but I think I'm the first to make it really fast and with a nice usable UI. And to actually open source the code so others can build it themselves.

Can you tell me more about what you mean by filtering by mutual paths?

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