Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by EndXA » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 8:26 PM UTC

Six Degrees of Wikipedia
sixdegreesofwikipedia.com

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by takoid » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

This is very similar to and likely inspired by the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by java-man » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

Somewhat related to Getting to Philosophy phenomenon [0].

Interestingly, there are only 3 degrees between Banana slug [1] and Ergodicity [2]. I thought there will be more and Philosophy [3] would be one of them. I was wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by CharlesW » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 9:39 PM UTC

takoid wrote: post #2

This is very similar to and likely inspired by the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

"Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is a play on "Six Degrees of Separation", which they link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by vinni2 » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

Traversing the hyperlinks to find shortest path gives less interesting results. They should have considered some kind of weights to assign some importance to the edges like how many times two entities are mentioned together or if they are mentioned in the first paragraph of each other etc. This is much weaker than 6 degrees of separation.

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by CephalopodMD » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

This is delightful!

The UI looks a little ugly, but the UX is really great! I love the fun facts while loading, and how you're able to test the app right on the landing page. The graph is cool too, and I legitimately feel motivated to show this to other people.

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by vinni2 » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 9:59 PM UTC

This is similar to Erdős number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by dang » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 10:00 PM UTC

Six Degrees of Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444053 - June 2021 (1 comment)

Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468196 - Feb 2018 (324 comments)

Six Degrees of Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201513 - May 2008 (7 comments)

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by i-am-gizm0 » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

Hugged?

Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Post by codethief » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 10:25 PM UTC

> Found 218 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Adolf Hitler to Wet T-shirt contest in 54.73 seconds!

Finally we know!