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also sometimes it counts links in sidebars as first, i think that's unintentional.
Excellent. Saved me some clicking resulting in more efficient use of procrastination time! I hit loops a few times - you could drop to the second link in those cases instead of stopping completely.
If you drop out of loops, you will reach every article eventually. (Unless you are ending in a cul de sac.)
reiki spiritual_practice spirituality reality being eastern_philosophy islamic_philosophy islamic_studies islamic_history history george_santayana madrid spain balearic_islands catalan_language uh oh... found a loop
spain -> balearic_islands -> catalan_language -> spain .
So this game is traversing a cyclic graph. It should be possible to get around this by keeping track of visited links, and not repeating our clicks.
Now is Wikipedia a connected graph?
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Just hijack Philosophy.
Too easy. The idea was to create an entirely plausible pathway of links that nobody could complain about individually (so they wouldn't get reverted) which nonetheless eventually led to http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/goatse
As of 2008, the center of English Wikipedia is the article 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reachable from it. Disregarding all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom, at an average of 3.45 clicks to anywhere else. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separati…
>the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom I find this absolutely fascinating. Consider that the reason we're at the centre of the world map is because we had the power to choose to put ourselves there, at the point in history when the maps were being drawn. Is that imperial influence, long since waned, still echoing across the years, visible in the wikipedia graph?
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>the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom I find this absolutely fascinating. Consider that the reason we're at the centre of the world map is because we had the power to choose to put ourselves there, at the point in history when the maps were being drawn. Is that imperial influence, long since waned, still echoing across the years, visible in the wikipedia graph?
OR, it's just because they used the English wikipedia for it