Does this hold true with following the xth link on the page? I'd predict it does, but the further x is from 1, the longer the average chain before you get to the loop (by virtue of definitions being at the top of wiki articles, then at some point the average length would hit a consistent level). Would love to see this modified to let you determine x.
Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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#132You could optimize this a bit by caching the loops, I noticed some pauses between Fact and Truth, seeing as how that loop always comes up it would be nice to cache it.
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#133I really want to find the longest route from A to Hitler now...
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#134I 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…
I have a kind of Wiki game that I play aloud with friends. Person A names a topic. Person B must guess whether Wikipedia owns the top Google (incognito/not signed-in) result for that term. Person B gets a point for guessing right, or Person A gets a point if Person B guesses wrong. The fun is in coming up with "stumpers.'
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#135This is the shortest one I've found so far - http://wikiloopr.com/monty%20python
here's the shortest one i've found: http://wikiloopr.com/home
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#136First two I tried led to different loops:
1. Elephant (Mammal ... Human)
2. Big Bang (Fact ... Truth)
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#137TIL Wikipedia has a JSON API!
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#138Here is a similar visualization of the phenomenon from last year http://xefer.com/wikipedia
This is a superior visualisation in my opinion - it actually builds you a tree of links as you enter subsequent searches. Quite interesting to see how article chains cluster into 3 or 4 different "main branches".
Except there's no autocomplete. I couldn't match Carly rae jepsen... but once you get it, it is much cooler.
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#139Looks like http://wikiloopr.com/Crystal breaks it (The loop has no other end)
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#140Looks like http://wikiloopr.com/Crystal breaks it (The loop has no other end)
Right now it appears to be looping between Natural Science and Physics. But they're really far apart so you might not seem them on your screen at once.