Shameless plug, semi-related game I made some years ago based on Wikipedia links, where the goal is to find the page that’s _not_ linked to the others. https://havarnov.github.io/oddoneout/
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#22I recall a website maybe around a decade ago that "sort of" did this, except it was called Hitler Hops - and it posited that any article on Wikipedia was only (i think) 6 articles away from getting to Adolf Hitler. You'd put in an article and it would find how many "hops"/articles it took to get to the guy. Was an interesting concept, not sure if it's still around though (probably not).
Wikipedia cites 'Clicks to Hitler'
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#23Went from Vercingetorix to Olivia Rodrigo in four hops.
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#24This was pretty fun. It was a challenge to find a link that got up to 6
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Korea%20Squash...
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#26(2018)
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#27This makes it onto the front page of HN like every couple years.
Jacob (its creator) is now my cofounder at Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com). Check it out if you want to see his latest work :)
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#28As an Unread Information Scientist I find tremendous value in this. It's something worth running locally for research purposes. Great work.
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#29Hugged?
To death
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#30All post-2021 created pages don't exist. One gets a slightly misleading error messages that a page doesn't exist which is confusing when the page evidently _does_ exist. E.g. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ever%20Given&t...