Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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#2Wikipedia is aware of this:
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#3Wikipedia is aware of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_to_Philosophy
i know. when i found that out, i spent half the day on wikipedia trying it out with different pages. so i built a way to automate it :)
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#4Seems like it would be nice to cache some of these requests, instead of repeatedly hammering the Wikipedia API. And why is it grabbing images?
(Incidentally, my test case for the screenshot did not lead to Philosophy!)
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#5Seems like it would be nice to cache some of these requests, instead of repeatedly hammering the Wikipedia API. And why is it grabbing images? http://i.imgur.com/KSju9.png (Incidentally, my test case for the screenshot did not lead to Philosophy!)
totally agree. i hacked this together pretty quickly last night. definitely a lot of room for improvement. thanks for the feedback!
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#6"Honda" only goes 3 links
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#7As far as I know, this was noticed in May last year on the xkcd forums. http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71309 There's a writeup of it with a gigantic picture over here: http://www.mrphlip.com/wikiphilosophy/
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#8http://wikiloopr.com/texting Yay! FInally found one that doesn't work.
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#9"Honda" only goes 3 links
i guess i could modify it to not include bold links. notice why it's stopping there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company
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#10Very first try, The Eiffel Tower, oddly enough, leads to Great Britain