Interesting. I wonder what are the two most separated pages, i.e. pages with the longest path connecting them.
There's a website for this too! Unfortunately I can't remember the URL, and google isn't helping...
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#42This is also an interesting game on Wikitree, especially if you've connected a few of your own relatives: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Connection&...
Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#43Yes -> No: 658 paths
No -> Yes: 2 paths
The struggle is real :)
Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#44Interesting. I wonder what are the two most separated pages, i.e. pages with the longest path connecting them.
It's pretty easy to get 5 degrees with two obscure pages from completely unrelated categories, like a small train stop to a videogame character.
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#45This is awesome! I was able
to validate some trivia: everything in Wikipedia leads back to philosophy…
All you have to do is search something and click the hyperlinks randomly and eventually you’ll end up in philosophy…
Very small degrees of freedom so far..
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#46Creator here. Glad that HN rediscovered my old side project. All the code is freely available on GitHub [1]. It's running on a tiny f1-micro GCE instance which is currently down due to the traffic. I don't have time to fix it right now, but it should resolve itself once traffic dies down. The data source is also several years out of date at this point, so the links it returns may not match current reality. Other than…
Very fun to play around with. Thank you!
Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#47Creator here. Glad that HN rediscovered my old side project. All the code is freely available on GitHub [1]. It's running on a tiny f1-micro GCE instance which is currently down due to the traffic. I don't have time to fix it right now, but it should resolve itself once traffic dies down. The data source is also several years out of date at this point, so the links it returns may not match current reality. Other than…
> I'm currently building an AI email app called Shortwave [2]. I promise that has much better uptime and more consistent updates!
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> [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
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> [2] https://shortwave.com
Welp! It's already hugged to deathi guess
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#48This is more fun than I expected.
I tried the strangest pairings I could think of.
The last one I tried was Barack Obama and Joanna Rutkowska [0].
[0]: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Barack%20Obama...
Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#49This is awesome! I was able to validate some trivia: everything in Wikipedia leads back to philosophy… All you have to do is search something and click the hyperlinks randomly and eventually you’ll end up in philosophy… Very small degrees of freedom so far..
We had a game for awhile at work of finding paths from random articles to Rome. We never failed, so we stopped playing.
Re: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
#50This is awesome! I was able to validate some trivia: everything in Wikipedia leads back to philosophy… All you have to do is search something and click the hyperlinks randomly and eventually you’ll end up in philosophy… Very small degrees of freedom so far..
The way I've heard this explained tells you to click on the first link on the page that's not in the disambiguation section. Never found a loop so far, and it pretty quickly hones in on it.