Nice tool :-) It seems to also take words between parentheses though I think. For example on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland I would expect it to follow European not Icelandic.
Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
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Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#12This image shows how things end up in Philosophy, by XKCD forumite arotenbe: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=29727&mode=v...
Looking at these stats shows how viral this meme/trivia got:
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Philosophy
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Mathematics
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Reason
I posted these stats on a FB status a couple of days ago because of the sudden spike. Now that sudden spike looks small compared to today's sudden spike. Funny how there's different levels of viral, almost akin to different levels of infinite. What would happen if this hit mainstream media?
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#13That's 'cause Philosophy covers it all: "Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
Too bad there's no Philosophy in http://xkcd.com/435/
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#14Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop panhard -> auverland -> panhard. So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail. [edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one…
"Beans" is 28 steps..
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#15Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop panhard -> auverland -> panhard. So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail. [edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one…
30 for "Howard Hughes"
uh oh... found a loop
mathematics -> quantity -> property_(philosophy) -> modern_philosophy -> western_europe -> europe -> continent -> landmass -> landform -> earth_sciences -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite_set -> mathematics.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#16Ironically, it doesn't work from "Spark Plug".
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#17Excellent. Saved me some clicking resulting in more efficient use of procrastination time!
I hit loops a few times - you could drop to the second link in those cases instead of stopping completely.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#18Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop panhard -> auverland -> panhard. So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail. [edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one…
F-111 is 45 steps.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#19And xkcd itself is "18 steps to philosophy"...
I don't think it works correctly though... it uses "Author" as the first link whereas the first link in the text of the article is "webcomic" ("Author" is in the summary pannel on the side) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Xkcd
It seems to be taking the right panel first. Same thing happened to me with Trade[1], leaded to San Juan de Dios Market
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#20Wow, someone just modified Modern Philosophy (now first link is Western Europe), Science and/or Knowledge pages, which makes most previously things tried by me kick into a 25 loop. I'm wondering if it's intentional.