You have a bug. Pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. (note the dot at the end) have a "geographic coordinate system" link at the top, that isn't part of the article. So queries like http://wikiloopr.com/Steve%20Jobs are actually returning wrong results.
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
#112I can't replicate it, but I encountered a weird bug. I entered "Star Trek" and hit Enter. The suggested items list appeared and I clicked on "Star Trek". Page titles appeared as normal, but everything appeared twice, like so: Star Trek Star Trek Cinema of the United States Film Cinema of the United States Recording Data Level of measurement Film ...etc until the last page title, "Reality" Seems like two processes wer…
I also got a weird one: Anime Animation The page you specified doesn't exist
Same thing here, also from Animation.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#113I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles). Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc. The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with ab…
Maybe the interesting part is the 150,000 lost games.
Surely most of those are just abandoned games?
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#114ironically, starting at "strange loop" avoids the repetitive philosophical argument
That works because somebody is being funny, and created a self referential strange loop inside Wikipedia. That's a good find you found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loops
Hofstadter was a genius, one of his books was called "I am a Strange Loop" and xkcd (jokingly) reported that his autobiography reads:
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#115You have a bug. Pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc . (note the dot at the end) have a "geographic coordinate system" link at the top, that isn't part of the article. So queries like http://wikiloopr.com/Steve%20Jobs are actually returning wrong results.
thanks! I'll go ahead and fix it.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#116You have a bug. Pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc . (note the dot at the end) have a "geographic coordinate system" link at the top, that isn't part of the article. So queries like http://wikiloopr.com/Steve%20Jobs are actually returning wrong results.
Yep, it's seeing the "Coordinates" link at the top right corner of the page.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#117Oh, I think I found one that doesn't loop: Port Arthur http://wikiloopr.com/Port%20Arthur Either that, I found a bug.
Looks like a bug. Dalian should lead to Liaoning.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
ah so thats why the degree is called Doctor of Philosophy?! Thanks for the enlightenment! I've wondered quite a lot of times why I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and not Doctor of Computer Science.
Traditionally, a university had four faculties, the lower or artists faculty, and the three higher faculties of theology, law and medicine. Students would start in the artists faculty learning the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (including astrology)) to become a magister artium (M.A.) and then go to one of the higher faculties to get their doctorate (Th.D, LL.…
That's really cool. Thanks for sharing.
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#119"Lies" doesn't work.
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