My best run so far:
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"BugGuide" to "Macintosh"
Time: 30.698 Seconds
Number of links visited: 6
The path you took:
[ "BugGuide", "Website", "Web browser", "Safari (web browser)", "Mac OS X Panther", "MacOS", "Macintosh" ]
Wikipedia Speedruns
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Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#52This 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...
Very cool. My first go was similar:
"West Virginia" to "Austria-Hungary"
Time: 50.962 Seconds
Number of links visited: 8
The path you took: ["West Virginia", "United States", "North America", "Continent", "Eurasia", "Europe", "World war", "World War I", "Austria-Hungary" ]
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#53"Magazine" to "Periodical literature"
Time: 1.113 Seconds
Number of links visited: 1
The path you took: [ "Magazine", "Periodical literature" ]
:)
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#54"Computer network" to "Niger"
Time: 257.660 Seconds
Number of links visited: 3
The path you took: [ "Computer network", "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", "Time zone", "Niger" ]
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#55"Chromosome" to "BBC One" Time: 78.910 Seconds Number of links visited: 10 The path you took: [ "Chromosome", "DNA", "Life", "Animal", "Systema Naturae", "Carl Linnaeus", "Chelsea Physic Garden", "Chelsea, London", "United Kingdom", "BBC", "BBC One" ] This is pretty sick.
Damn. So I just lost one.
I needed to go from 700 to “Australasian Virtual Herbarium”.
Getting from 700 to South Australia or Adelaide is no big deal. The problem is trying to find a single Wikipedia page that actually links to the Wikipedia page for the Australasian Virtual Herbarium rather than to their website (or just referencing it without any link text).
I suppose I could go in somewhere and add it myself, but that would be cheating. So after 670 seconds, I’m throwing in the towel on this one. If anybody finds a way, let me know, but I may take a crack at this one again later this evening.
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#56Reminds me of the Wiki Game: https://www.thewikigame.com/
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#57Earlier 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.
'Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".'
Stems from https://xkcd.com/903/ alt-text. Might not be the original source, but that's where I know it from.
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#58I find it much more interesting to play by fewest links clicked. Having a timer running is too much pressure.
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#59Best run so far:
--- "Performative verb" to "Mammal"
Time: 41.101 Seconds
Number of links visited: 4
The path you took: [ "Performative verb", "Verb", "Grammatical gender", "Human", "Mammal" ]
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#60Earlier 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.
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...