[HN Gopher] Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Author : EndXA
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-12-20 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)
| takoid wrote:
| This is very similar to and likely inspired by the Six Degrees of
| Kevin Bacon:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
| CharlesW wrote:
| "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is a play on "Six Degrees of
| Separation", which they link to:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
| java-man wrote:
| Somewhat related to Getting to Philosophy phenomenon [0].
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| Interestingly, there are only 3 degrees between Banana slug [1]
| and Ergodicity [2]. I thought there will be more and Philosophy
| [3] would be one of them. I was wrong.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug
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| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity
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| [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
| vinni2 wrote:
| Traversing the hyperlinks to find shortest path gives less
| interesting results. They should have considered some kind of
| weights to assign some importance to the edges like how many
| times two entities are mentioned together or if they are
| mentioned in the first paragraph of each other etc. This is much
| weaker than 6 degrees of separation.
| CephalopodMD wrote:
| This is delightful!
|
| The UI looks a little ugly, but the UX is really great! I love
| the fun facts while loading, and how you're able to test the app
| right on the landing page. The graph is cool too, and I
| legitimately feel motivated to show this to other people.
| vinni2 wrote:
| This is similar to Erdos number
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595821 - Sept 2021 (67
| comments)
|
| _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444053 - June 2021 (1
| comment)
|
| _Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468196 - Feb 2018 (324
| comments)
|
| _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201513 - May 2008 (7
| comments)
| i-am-gizm0 wrote:
| Hugged?
| codethief wrote:
| > Found 218 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Adolf Hitler
| to Wet T-shirt contest in 54.73 seconds!
|
| Finally we know!
| _jal wrote:
| Lambda Calculus -> Lorena Bobbitt was 4 degrees.
|
| I feel like the existence of pages like "List of notable people
| from Buffalo, NY" are sort of cheating this sort of thing.
| piotr-yuxuan wrote:
| Fails on this couple of bilingual link:
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| https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ecc%C3%A9it%C3...
| wardedVibe wrote:
| Interesting, the automated version of racing wikipedia pages:
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| https://wikispeedrun.org/
|
| Though the path it gives from Manifestiny
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny to Homo Sapiens
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human seems to go through a
| hyperlink not found on the page? Might be buried in versioning or
| other languages though.
| scohesc wrote:
| I recall a website maybe around a decade ago that "sort of" did
| this, except it was called Hitler Hops - and it posited that any
| article on Wikipedia was only (i think) 6 articles away from
| getting to Adolf Hitler. You'd put in an article and it would
| find how many "hops"/articles it took to get to the guy.
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| Was an interesting concept, not sure if it's still around though
| (probably not).
| haskaalo wrote:
| I built a similar website this summer https://wikisp.fanor.dev !
| The source code is also open source
| https://github.com/haskaalo/wikisp
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| Its built from Wikipedia dumps in July. Links in articles
| shouldn't have changed much by now but updating the data set
| takes quite a long time!
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| One of my first project that taught me that gathering and
| cleaning data in data science is a long task, even if automated.
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