[HN Gopher] Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Author : sharkweek
Score : 62 points
Date : 2021-09-20 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)
| kloch wrote:
| Has anyone found a 5 or 6 minimum degree search? The longest I
| have found is 4: Triumph TR-7 to Apple iic
| Aulex wrote:
| I found one with 5 degrees.
|
| Rostam to Hydro Flask
| jwngr wrote:
| Creator here. It's exciting to see this back on the front page of
| HN! My poor little f1-micro instance is not holding up well
| against the traffic though I won't be able to migrate it to a
| bigger server today, but if you bookmark it and check back in a
| day or two, it'll be back up.
|
| If you think this is cool, I'm working on a huge new thing with
| some former Firebasers and others. Follow me @_jwngr on Twitter
| (https://twitter.com/_jwngr) for a big reveal coming very soon!
|
| Here is the original HN post for those who are interested:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468196
| mikewarot wrote:
| Slide Rule --> Surface Plate was pretty cool.
| s_dev wrote:
| Recall this being a school project from a classmate. Was
| disappointed to learn the article centre of Wikipedia beyond the
| list articles e.g. 2019 was 'the United Kingdom' this was back in
| 2007 or 2008 or something.
| _z1234 wrote:
| I tried "Pembroke welsh corgi" to "Moose", it said 2 degrees. But
| I couldn't find the outward edge links from "Moose" -> "cattle"
| and vice versa?
| tombert wrote:
| Huh, fun to learn that there's only three degrees of separation
| between Norm MacDonald and Miguel De Cervantes.
|
| I love projects like this; they do a good job making the world
| feel a bit smaller.
| arittr wrote:
| i love it. i used to play this late night in college with whoever
| was around... part of me feels like seeing the graph takes a
| little of the joy out of it, but that's the same part of me that
| wishes i made this myself.
| darkwizard42 wrote:
| The "wiki game" where two people click Random Page and try to get
| to each other's page via blue links only is one of my favorites.
|
| Obviously we never got there optimally but very cool to see this
| visualized and created.
|
| semi-related, I wonder if there are any new papers on how to
| optimally generate blue links on Wiki pages and how great linking
| can happen more auto-magically!
| malkia wrote:
| Was wondering about
| https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=bulgaria&targe... -
| but site maybe getting too much to work right now (would check
| later!)
| malkia wrote:
| ah, it worked now - heheh (so I was curious about "Bulgaria"
| and "ska" music):
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Santo
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
|
| The El_Santo is the real connection here (" The Latin ska band
| King Chango released an album titled The Return of El Santo.")
| from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_El_Santo
|
| fun times :)
|
| I should search on "death metal" next, etc. (should be more
| connections) - it's the two styles of music I like most...
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Go to any sizable wiki page and click the first wiki link, then
| repeat. The theory goes that eventually you will end up at
| Philosophy. For example Eddie Vedder took seven clicks to reach
| Philosophy.
|
| It's not a law, however. "Township High School District 211" sent
| me into an infinite loop:
|
| United States
|
| Contiguous United States
|
| Alaska
|
| U.S. State
|
| United States
|
| Perhaps I should edit one of the pages to prevent that...?
| davidholdeman wrote:
| When I play this game, I click the N+1th link if I have already
| visited the Nth link.
| spywaregorilla wrote:
| I played this a few times. While it does vaguely work, it seems
| to follow a pretty consistent route and benefits from the fact
| that philosophy is preceded by "idea", which seems like the
| more proper root of the epistemological tree.
| bArray wrote:
| > Sorry internet hipster, this little side project requires
| JavaScript.
|
| Touche.
| omoikane wrote:
| This is one of the best error messages of this sort that I have
| seen as a Lynx user.
| prirai wrote:
| Yep, makes me sad. It's the reason I made my site fully
| optimized for text based browsers too. Have a look :
| prirai.github.io/nav.html Also, I parsed some books from
| various paces to make a neat archive. The themes will be
| visible only on a GUI browser tho. You won't need javascript.
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| < _angrily sips homegrown herb infusion_ >
| drdeca wrote:
| Appears to be suffering from a partial hug of death atm, but is
| pretty cool. Was surprised how few jumps needed for many things.
| (E.g. 3 jumps from "metric tensor" to "Ronald Reagan" along many
| possible paths)
| srmarm wrote:
| 3 degrees of separation seems to be the sweet spot for most of
| the combos I tested.
|
| Brilliant project and worked pretty fast for me
| [deleted]
| marcodiego wrote:
| > Whoops... Six Degrees of Wikipedia is temporarily unavailable.
| Please try again in a few seconds.
|
| HN hug of death?
| junon wrote:
| Seems like it!
| bntyhntr wrote:
| In school, we used to have "wiki races" when we were bored (I
| later googled this and we were far from the only ones). Pick a
| start and end article and race to see who got there first,
| verification via the back button on your browser. For speed
| purposes, it was usually easiest to just bubble up to the biggest
| unit of geography in common and then narrow back down.
|
| In college we made a site that represented each wikipedia page as
| a graph, with sections and links serving as nodes and leafs. It
| was a pretty fun visualization but we fell short of our ill-
| defined goal to page rank Wikipedia.
|
| This is pretty neat! And it reinforces my belief that bubbling up
| is the way to go. In the example it gave me, only a few of the 35
| paths didn't immediately jump to a very general concept. One of
| those was "leet" though :)
| marcosdumay wrote:
| Oh, I play this game when I don't know the name of something.
| Get in the page of a similar concept, bubble up and then down.
| Ericson2314 wrote:
| Hyperbolic geometry.
| tbenst wrote:
| The game is called Wiki Ball! I played it too--fond memories of
| navigating category pages..
| Timpy wrote:
| I ran one then opened the wikipedia page to verify it, I couldn't
| find the links.
|
| List of common misconceptions -> Denzel Washington
|
| Allegedly these pages are only 2 degrees apart by way of Hal B.
| Wallis, Orson Welles, and Humphrey Bogart. I couldn't find Denzel
| Washington on any of those pages (but all three of them appear on
| the list of common misconceptions page).
| crude-technical wrote:
| At the bottom of the page (after References and External Links
| etc) are multiple collapsible info boxes. For example, Orson
| Welles has one for an AFI Life Achievement Award, which
| Washington has also received.
|
| This feels like it would be either an advanced technique in
| wiki ball, or houseruled out. I personally think it definitely
| counts as a link in the article, though.
| xeromal wrote:
| I can't get it to work. :(
| bmn__ wrote:
| This result link should be cached, does this work for you?
|
| https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Erd%C5%91s&tar...
| xeromal wrote:
| It does! Thanks! I think my query was just an impossible one.
|
| https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=University%20o.
| ..
| bob229 wrote:
| Wikipedia is truly awful
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