Someone just changed the Reason page [1] which is now putting the focus on Biology instead of Philosophy.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&oldid=5...
Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#52http://wikiloopr.com/texting Yay! FInally found one that doesn't work.
That loops between philosophy and preposition.
It's been modified since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Text_messaging...
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#53I remember someone on reddit posting a python script that does the same thing (following the wiki chain to Philosophy).
Amusingly, my test got stuck in a loop between Science and Natural Science. :)
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#54This may be hyper naive but is this the consequence of beginning most articles representing the current topic as a more specific form of another topic? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra "Algebra ... is a branch of mathematics." (mathematics being a link) So if you continue to generalize you'll end up at the most general subject which appears to be philosophy. [update] added an example
That seems like a very reasonable assumption. I just randomly sampled a dozen or so articles and they all followed that theme.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#55Either philosophy is a dead end, then, or it is the base of all knowledge. Depends on whether knowledge is a tree or a graph, which is... a philosophical question! My brain exploded.
If there is some characteristic Q that is true of all knowledge, then Q must be true of Q. A cycle!
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#56Strangely, http://wikiloopr.com/Tacos takes you to a different loop than http://wikiloopr.com/Burritos
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#57I got stuck in a philosophy-argument loop instead of philosophy-reality ;)
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#58What happens for Biology? http://wikiloopr.com/Biology. For me, it goes down until it gets to Biology, and then highlights Biology over and over.
Biology
Natural science
Science
Knowledge
Fact
Proof (truth)
Argument
Philosophy
Problem
Doubt
Belief
Proposition
Logic
Reason
Human
Mammal
Class (biology)
Biological classification
Organism
Biology
Am I just missing something here?
Edit: This no longer happens. Now it properly loops on Philosophy and Proposition.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#59I thought Wikipedia hates sites like this. The do more harm than good.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#60Either philosophy is a dead end, then, or it is the base of all knowledge. Depends on whether knowledge is a tree or a graph, which is... a philosophical question! My brain exploded.
Trees are connected acyclic graphs, so knowledge could be both. ;)