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Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also reminds me of how if you click the second link of a Wikipedia article (and the second link of every subsequent page) you'll always end up on Philosophy

More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.

Knowledge also forms a loop going from: Knowledge -> Procedural knowledge -> Descriptive knowledge -> Knowledge.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#42
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also reminds me of how if you click the second link of a Wikipedia article (and the second link of every subsequent page) you'll always end up on Philosophy

More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.

I just tried it from a random page and thought it was going to work when I hit "knowledge", but ended up with a loop too. I think it's more of a truism than actual provable fact.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#43
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More info on this? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in my own test, this isn't true. You can hit loops, e.g. the page for Russia goes to Eastern Europe which goes back to Russia.

I just tried it from a random page and thought it was going to work when I hit "knowledge", but ended up with a loop too. I think it's more of a truism than actual provable fact.

I think it might be provable that you'll eventually hit a loop.

EDIT: I suppose one disproof would be the existence of articles that don't have a second link.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#49
post #37

This was a fun one: --- "Domain name" to "Creative Commons license" Time: 90.194 Seconds Number of links visited: 8 The path you took: [ "Domain name", "Website", "Adobe Flash Player", "Browser game", "Free-to-play", "Freemium", "Open source", "Creative Commons", "Creative Commons license" ] https://wikispeedruns.com/quick_run/finish?run_id=72581&play...

"New Delhi" to "Marseille"

Time: 64.282 Seconds

Number of links visited: 6

The path you took: [ "New Delhi", "Capital city", "Cantons of Switzerland", "French language", "Northern France", "France", "Marseille" ]

https://wikispeedruns.com/quick_run/finish?run_id=73745&play...

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