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Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

• tachyoff 9y ago
  This is fabulous! Got from cheese to postmodernism in two hops [1]. Really excellent work, and thanks for making it open source! [1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Cheese&target=Postmodernism https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Cheese&target=...
• didgeoridoo 9y ago
  Would be cool to see the paths ranked in order of “narrowness”, e.g. ranking a path with shorter, more specific articles more highly than a path that goes through a mega-page like “France”.
• tyWWpow 9y ago
  Created an account just to say this: First time in a long time I've seen something this fun on Hacker News. Just spent the last 10 minutes trying to see the hidden connections between Bagels and the Atlantic Puffin. Great work!
• jimnotgym 9y ago
  This is why I come on HN. Skeleton to Neon in two steps
• kahlonel 9y ago
  This was fun. It somehow connected towels and croissants.
• tbirrell 9y ago
  This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article. *Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions
  • ghrifter 9y ago
    I thought it was that if you clicked the first link you'd get to WW2 or Hitler. Was a dumb game to play in the library at school at lunch
  • zawerf 9y ago
    It's from the alt text of xkcd: https://xkcd.com/903/ https://xkcd.com/903/
  • tbirrell 9y ago
    It still works. Technically it can be any of the following 25 articles because once you hit Philosophy, it loops through: Philosophy > Knowledge > Fact > Education > Learning > Evidence > Logic > Ancient Greek > Greek language > Modern Greek > Colloquialism > Vernacular > Human > Neontology > Biology > Natural science > Science > Latin > Classical language > Language > Communication > Subject (philosophy) > Subjective consciousness > Consciousness > Quality (philosophy) > Philosophy
  • digi_owl 9y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... https://xkcd.com/903/ https://xkcd.com/903/ < check alt-text.
• luizfzs 9y ago
  Brigadeiro to Half-Life in 3 steps. Seems interesting.
  • mmanfrin 9y ago
    That is the closest the number 3 has been to Half-Life.
• turc1656 9y ago
  Very cool. And a lot less degrees of freedom between my tests than I expected - so far everything has a legitimate 3 degrees when I expected much more. Higgs Boson to Taylor Swift in 3 steps, amazing. Not only that, but 91 ways to get there in just 3 steps. This basically quantifies what my wife and I jokingly refer to "rabbit-holing" online. She'll ask me what I'm reading and it will be something totally unrelated to what I said I was coming to look up. And she's always like "how did that happen?" And I never have a good answer. But now I do (if it involves Wikipedia)!
  • workaccount 9y ago
    something perhaps out of the box will lead to 4. Example: ancient language --- tv series
  • empath75 9y ago
    You need to go more obscure -- Fiber Bundle to Lars Ulrich was 4 steps. Calabi-Yau Manifold to Donnie Wahlberg is also 4. I haven't gotten 5 yet.
    • el_benhameen 9y ago
      I got 9 steps with "Here (company)" to "There (wikipedia disambiguation page)".
      • aylons 9y ago
        Disambiguation pages are not supposed to be linked from within Wikipedia, so I'm not sure this one really counts.
      • purell_hack 9y ago
        I got a 9 step one without a disambiguation page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express&target=Phinney https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express... Took a long time though.
    • neolefty 9y ago
• IntronExon 9y ago
  9 paths with 3 steps from Gluon to Lemur. No way this is going to be addictive. Disappears for days Edit: I finally got 4 steps! Clitoris->Dictation I am a child.
  • blattimwind 9y ago
    https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six&target=Degrees https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six&target=Deg...
  • MichaelMoser123 9y ago
    Best result: No path of Wikipedia links exists from Bertolt Brecht to 97. Found 87 paths with 5 degrees of separation from Asteroid family to SIX Found 460 paths with 4 degrees of separation from Imaginary unit to Borscht Found 460 paths with 4 degrees of separation from 433 Eros to Shooting of Oscar Grant
    • MichaelMoser123 9y ago
      Found 3 paths with 6 degrees of separation from SIX to Separation Found 571 paths with 6 degrees of separation from Sepulchre (comics) to Separation
• maaaats 9y ago
  Could you make it possible to just test with the fun suggestions that scroll through?
  • scrooched_moose 9y ago
    Yeah, that really confused me. Distance from "M.C. Escher" to "Lucky Charms" sounds interesting only to get: You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that. Took me a while to realize it didn't "lock in" the suggestions and I had to manually enter it.
    • jffry 9y ago
      Which is a shame, because that specific example ends up having some interestingly diverse paths between the two: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=M.%20C.%20Escher&target=Lucky%20Charms https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=M.%20C.%20Esch...
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I clearly should've done some more user testing ;) I think that's a great suggestion and would be much better than showing an error message. I'll update that once I have some time when the server isn't crashing!
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Just implemented this with a quick hot fix[1]. Hopefully I didn't break anything else in my hurry to get out. [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d221fba81adbbe0259e https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d2...
    • maaaats 9y ago
      Thanks! Cool project :)
• Theodores 9y ago
  This is brilliant. For a long time I have had a 'motorway game' I play with my brother in law where we identify two cars on the road and then have to come up with the connection. So often you see badge engineered vans where one partner, e.g. Nissan rather than Renault, makes the van as seen, so you can match the other partner, e.g. Renault, in this game, since they are the same company, then the next vehicle, e.g. some Mercedes car, how do you get the link, and prove it when at motorway speed? Clearly this app makes it effortless, you could find some supplier like Recaro actually make the seats in both, even the van. Or you could find some joint venture in Brazil that both companies share, who knows... So I look forward to using this app on the M4 some time soon!
• jwngr 9y ago
  Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack: * Frontend: React (Create React App) * Backend: Python Flask * Database: SQLite * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny f1-micro instance) All the code is open source[1] and I'm happy to answer any questions about building or maintaining it! [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
  • Trufa 9y ago
    Am I not understanding something? When I linked Obama to Uruguay, Myanmar came up (the only surprising one). https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target=Barack%20Obama https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target... I went to the Uruguayan wiki page and found nothing on Myanmar and nothing relating to Uruguay on the Myanmar page. Awesome project btw, great idea.
    • jwngr 9y ago
      [copy of answer from below] The Wikipedia database doesn't differentiate links which appear in the main article versus in the sources or categories sections. It's possible one of the intermediate links is in there. You sometimes need to do a CTRL+f in "View Source" to find the link. Also, the latest Wikipedia dump is from February 2nd, so it's possible the link has been deleted since that date. I'll regenerate my database when the new dump lands in early March.
    • spiznnx 9y ago
      It's a directed graph. Your source is Uruguay and your destination is Obama. You'll find Obama on the midpoints. Opposite direction: no Myanmar https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target=Barack%20Obama https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target...
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• colemannugent 9y ago
  This makes the "How many clicks to Hitler" game much faster. For those uninitiated, the game was to click the "Random Article" link in the sidebar and count how many links it took to get to Hitler. It is really interesting to see just how big of an event WWII was. Every country article has a section on their involvement or why they were not involved. After playing with it more, this is pretty fun. I vote that a "degrees from Hitler" score be added to the top of every article. I think it might be an interesting proxy for how esoteric a particular page is.
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  • bringtheaction 9y ago
    Indeed. First thing I tried as well. Found 1 path with 2 degrees of separation from Bitcoin to Adolf Hitler in 1.33 seconds! Bitcoin -> Austria -> Adolf Hitler
    • AstralStorm 9y ago
      Game is much more challenging if you ban pages that also have big categories. (Look of Category: X exists and add some cutoff based on number of links there.) Obviously also lists.
      • lev99 9y ago
        There are several easy to reach pages without categories. Almost anyone alive during WW2 will have a WW2 link. Almost every country is 1 degree from Hitler. Most companies/publications around than will link to Hitler.
        • AstralStorm 9y ago
          If you skip lists, it gets quite a bit harder. Countries or places would need special handling yes, they make way too many links. Probably trimming top 5% of most linked pages will make for a fun game.
• jumpmanjr 9y ago
  Can you create an option to find the most distant connection for a topic?
  • kyleschiller 9y ago
    You mean all articles that are 6 degrees away? That would be most if not all articles.
    • dingo_bat 9y ago
      Most distant != 6
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I think this is going to be extremely computationally intensive. One of the big performance wins I got when designing the search algorithm[1] was visiting as few nodes in the graph as possible (which I did via a bi-directional breadth-first search). To find the most distant node, I'd need to traverse the entire graph, which consists of almost 6 million nodes. It can be done, but it would take minutes, hours, days, ... [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/a2699dc95d884ec64a46416307bebd9c58f76412/sdow/breadth_first_search.py#L36 https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/a2699dc95d884ec64a4641630...
    • AstralStorm 9y ago
      Not too expensive, you can use parallel IDDFS to get a good approximation quickly. (Especially if you pick a good heuristic to follow links.) Challenging part is keeping track of already visited pages to break cycles - some variant of a Bloom filter will help.
• fortythirteen 9y ago
  Age of Enlightenment -> Consumption of Tide Pods[0] [0] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Age%20of%20Enlightenment&target=Consumption%20of%20Tide%20Pods https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Age%20of%20Enl...
  • vanderZwan 9y ago
    Interestingly, if you go the other way it blows up: [0] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Consumption%20of%20Tide%20Pods&target=Age%20of%20Enlightenment https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Consumption%20...
    • QML 9y ago
      Kind of reminds me of PageRank in someway; the number of "backedges" is not guaranteed to equal number of "forwardedges", hence the difference in number of paths.
    • saagarjha 9y ago
      I'd assume very few articles lead in to "Consumption of Tide Pods", while many do to "Age of Enlightenment".
  • jacobwilliamroy 9y ago
    Mensa International -> Consumption of Tide Pods: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Mensa%20International&target=Consumption%20of%20Tide%20Pods https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Mensa%20Intern...
    • dingo_bat 9y ago
      Meg Whitman -> Consumption of Tide Pods https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Meg%20Whitman&target=Consumption%20of%20Tide%20Pods https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Meg%20Whitman&... ಠ_ಠ
  • hsrada 9y ago
    It shows 8 3-click paths for me. https://imgur.com/a/uo9oi https://imgur.com/a/uo9oi
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• onychomys 9y ago
  There's only one path from Mersenne Prime to Bolivia, if anybody was wondering. Mersenne Prime -> French People -> Bolivia.
  • lucb1e 9y ago
    Only one path of three. There are probably hundreds or thousands in four steps.
• diegorbaquero 9y ago
  How are the paths created? I found intermediate nodes that didn't link to the actual articles. I searched Colombia > Silicon Valley
  • jwngr 9y ago
    The Wikipedia database doesn't differentiate links which appear in the main article versus in the sources or categories sections. It's possible one of the intermediate links is in there. You sometimes need to do a CTRL+f in "View Source" to find the link. Also, the latest Wikipedia dump is from February 2nd, so it's possible the link has been deleted since that date. I'll regenerated my database when the new dump lands in early March.
• kyleschiller 9y ago
  What determines a "path"? "Philosophy" is connected to "Ethiopia" through "Sexism", but I couldn't find that phrase on either page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Philosophy&target=Ethiopia https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Philosophy&tar...
  • torgard 9y ago
    Same, New Zealand to Faroe Islands through Italy. Maybe both New Zealand and the Faroes reference Italy?
    • stickydink 9y ago
      At the bottom of the page for each of the countries "Articles related to Italy" is a huge expandable section, with even more expandable sections inside. You can actually find both New Zealand and Faroe Islands in there. If you view-source the Italy page, you can find a link to both of those countries.
  • scrooched_moose 9y ago
    From the project description [1]: Wikipedia dumps raw database tables in a gzipped SQL format for the English language Wikipedia (enwiki) approximately once a month (e.g. dump from February 1, 2018)...By default, the script grabs the latest dump (available at https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/latest/ https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/latest/), but you can also call the database creation script with a download date in the format YYYYMMDD as the first argument. I'd guess the tool is working off an out of date article. 1) https://github.com/jwngr/sdow https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
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  • endorphone 9y ago
    Sexism links to both philosophy and Ethiopia. It is treating links as an undirected graph (despite the visual indication showing a directional vector), which seems entirely fair.
• lultimouomo 9y ago
  The same thing from 2008, with some fun graph facts included: http://mu.netsoc.ie/wiki/ http://mu.netsoc.ie/wiki/
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Yes, Sthephen Dolan's project (along with others) was definitely an inspiration for me! Although, I like to think I made a lot of performance and design improvements over his work. I used to have an acknowledgements section in my README with his name in it, but I seemed to have destroyed that. I'll make sure to give credit where credit is due and list all my inspirations.
• tucif 9y ago
  I was getting interesting results until I noticed a pattern involving the presence of "Wayback machine" as the only connecting dot between really different things. That adds noise, since articles now automatically use the wayback machine for "archived" links, thus generating many paths that do not really connect topics, just because the text "wayback machine" is part of the link text. It may be an interesting exercise to find outliers like that and compute paths without those nodes.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I considered this and may eventually add an option to ignore those kinds of pages, but I ultimately felt like the current mode remains more true to my goal for the project which is to traverse the links as any human would be able to. By the way, the two pages with the most incoming links are "Geographic coordinate system" (1,047,096 incoming links) and "International Standard Book Number" (955,957 incoming links).
    • nayuki 9y ago
      Indeed, the Wikipedia pages "Geographic coordinate system" and "International Standard Book Number" have the highest PageRank. See: https://www.nayuki.io/page/computing-wikipedias-internal-pageranks https://www.nayuki.io/page/computing-wikipedias-internal-pag...
• aecs99 9y ago
  This looks great! Nice work. I have a suggestion: Could you highlight a path when an edge is clicked on? I guess the clicking on the nodes can link to their wiki pages.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Yes, definitely a feature I'd like to add. I can change the opening the page on Wikipedia to happen on double click instead of single click. I am still a d3 noob and need to figure out how to implement the highlight path thing.
• countryqt30 9y ago
  For the article 'Multibagger stock', it told me: this article does not exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibagger_stock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibagger_stock
• BWStearns 9y ago
  https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Spud%20gun&target=Sputnik-1%20EMC%2FEMI%20lab%20model https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Spud%20gun&tar... Found a no-path!
  • flashdance 9y ago
    I think that's because nothing on wikipedia links to that page. I managed to go from spud gun -> great depression -> dissolution of the soviet union -> soviet union -> sputnik, but I couldn't get the last step!
  • mfoy_ 9y ago
    Spud gun links to "Sputnik 1", so if anything it's just weird that "Sputnik-1 EMC/EMI lab model" doesn't appear to link to "Sputnik 1" Well, rather, it DOES. Maybe the unencoded '/' in the URL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik-1_EMC/EMI_lab_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik-1_EMC/EMI_lab_model) breaks the 6 Degress of Wikipedia?
  • mmanfrin 9y ago
    One of your pages has nothing at all linking to it, so finding a route to that link is impossible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Sputnik-1_EMC/EMI_lab_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Sputnik-... However, you can go the other way: Sputnik-1_EMC/EMI_lab_model Sputnik 1 Soviet space program United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space United Nations Model United Nations Dwight Schrute Spud gun Also I'm realizing after finding that that I could have used the site in this post...
• tw1010 9y ago
  Does anyone know what the "diameter" of the wikipedia graph is? In other words, what is the longest shortest path between two wikipedia articles?
  • dbranes 9y ago
    Well that question only makes sense for connected graphs, we don't really know whether this is connected. So in general a version of this question that makes sense is, among all the connected components of the wikipedia graph, what is the largest diameter.
    • jwngr 9y ago
      This is an interesting question that I'd like to answer now that I have all the data. I am curious to see how long it will take to find a solution as I believe even the most efficient algorithms for this have a high runtime complexity. And yes, the graph is not connected (there are both nodes with no outgoing links and with no incoming links), but over 99% of the pages are connected, so the answer would still be interesting and worthwhile.
      • jcranmer 9y ago
        Floyd-Warshall solves the all-pairs shortest path in time O(V^3). Running a BFS search rooted from every node would find the shortest path in an unweighted graph in O(V*(V + E)).
        • tw1010 9y ago
          Hence, since there's a whole lot of Vs in the wikipedia graph, he's probably going to be satisfied with an approximate solution, unless he has a lot of CPU hours to spare.
          • jcranmer 9y ago
            There's 5,579,252 articles in English Wikipedia right now, which means the largest component has 5 million and change or so vertices. Each individual BFS should take a few CPU-seconds at most, and you can trivially parallelize the BFS for each node across as many CPUs as you have.
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• deckar01 9y ago
  Those graph node colors are not very color blind friendly. They are easy to differentiate in the list view, but in the graph with black borders, they are just too low contrast.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I'll look into it. Interestingly, I'm using[1] one of the default d3 color scales, which I assumed would be color blind friendly out of the box. [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/a2699dc95d884ec64a46416307bebd9c58f76412/website/src/components/ResultsList.js#L19 https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/a2699dc95d884ec64a4641630...
• pjmorris 9y ago
  Took some tinkering to hit five degrees, from 'Hemisphere Dancer' (Jimmy Buffet's old seaplane) to the VC (Vapnik–Chervonenkis) dimension. Rewarding for the site to say 'wipes brow I really had to work for this one.' [0] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Hemisphere%20Dancer&target=VC%20dimension https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Hemisphere%20D...
  • Tepix 9y ago
    Same with "Yilan Creole Japanese" to "Gustav Eberlein" with a nice 537 paths.
• labster 9y ago
  Anime --> Obesity https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Anime&target=Obesity https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Anime&target=O... Somehow, I didn't expect a one-stop layover in Dubai.
  • make3 9y ago
    That's hilarious. We should make this a contest, the 2 length paths with the most unlikely layover
  • 52-6F-62 9y ago
    I went and made it political: Anime -> Alt-right. The result was a little more predictable... I guess I shouldn't have had to look it up. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Anime&target=Alt-right https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Anime&target=A...
    • riking 9y ago
      But going Alt-right -> Anime has a second path through Vaporwave.
      • zouhair 9y ago
        Now try Donald Trump -> Nazism
      • zapt02 9y ago
        I found Alt-Right -> Ganguro to have interesting connections.
• dootdootdoot 9y ago
  Ugggh blocked by Lightspeed Rocket
• bencunningham 9y ago
  I made something similar using Wikipedia data, specifically for Politicians http://www.poligraph.io http://www.poligraph.io
• nathan_f77 9y ago
  This is awesome! I looked up "New Zealand" and "Yellow". There was only one degree of separation, via Ochre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre#In_Australia_and_New_Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre#In_Australia_and_New_Zea... I learned that the Maori people of New Zealand used ochre mixed with fish oil to paint wakas (war canoes), and also as an insect repellent.
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• airstrike 9y ago
  Take from that what you will... https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Fragile%20X%20syndrome&target=Counter-Strike%3A%20Global%20Offensive https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Fragile%20X%20...
• jquinby 9y ago
  I got 6 with "dig" to "dug" (though Dig ended up redirecting to "Double J Radio"): https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Double%20J%20%28radio%29&target=Dug https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Double%20J%20%...
• dkuder 9y ago
  Six, very meta version https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%20of%20Kevin%20Bacon&target=Phinney https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%...
• turc1656 9y ago
  Not sure if you deliberately designed it this way, but I noticed when spot checking some results that it includes the bibliography section links as connections. This seems like it may not be desirable. Example, I did a search that went from the Crusades to Buzz Aldrin and I noticed that Routledge was the first hop from the Crusades. It strikes me as odd that Routledge (a publishing company) would be mentioned on the Wiki article for the Crusades. So I went to look and noticed the link it took was the citation for a book published by this company. I wouldn't really count that as a legitimate hop since it's a citation, not a content link. EDIT - I noticed this also applies to the Notes section.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Yeah unfortunately I don't know of any way to differentiate the different types of links. Wikipedia's pagelinks database doesn't different them. I agree it's undesireable but I just cannot figure out how to cull them.
    • pradn 9y ago
      I think you'd have to parse the raw wikitext dump, keeping track of which section each link belongs in. Since the raw dumps is something like 50 GB of text, this sort of thing takes a while.
    • turc1656 9y ago
      I'm not sure how the backend is structured, but it seems that you must parse the individual pages at some point or another. I took a quick look at the Wikipedia HTML for a few pages and I would suggest stripping out anything within (or nested inside) of classes like "mw-cite-backlink", "reference-text", "citation book", "citation journal", etc. Also, you can probably strip out anything inside of a <cite> HTML tag. I'm sure there are more classes and tags, but that hopefully should give you a solid place to start. EDIT - You can also strip out or ignore anything inside of the ordered list for references - <ol class="references">...</ol> Also, some pages aren't documented in the same way, so something like this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System - doesn't have any classes or easy way to parse it for the References section even though the Notes section was set up in a more organized way. However, you could take note that the <span> tag contains class="mw-headline" id="References" and the text value is also References and then ignore everything until the next <span> begins.
• pbnjay 9y ago
  It would be a bit more interesting if it could distinguish between the "See Also" and other tables at the bottom of the pages, and the main content. E.g. I connected Donald Knuth to a Geneticist simply because they both won awards (in different categories).
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Unfortunately I'm not aware of a way to distinguish between the two. Wikipedia stores both types of links in the same database. I would love to cull out all the links in category boxes and sources. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!
• Aardwolf 9y ago
  "You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that." Why? There were two random examples filled in the boxes. I have to retype them manually? Really interesting and fun other than that! I'm trying something with 7 degrees, but so far most I could get are 4
• gingericha 9y ago
  Found 1,357 paths with 5 degrees of separation. 24.84 seconds. wipes brow https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Roopmati&target=Gravity%20Kills https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Roopmati&targe...
• crazysim 9y ago
  I would suggest making the Go button work right away on the example query that fades in and out without having to enter in anything. Right now it prompts you to enter something if you enter nothing in.
• mirkonasato 9y ago
  I had some fun doing something similar with Neo4j a few years ago: https://github.com/mirkonasato/graphipedia https://github.com/mirkonasato/graphipedia (The code may need some tweaks to work with the latest Neo4j version.)
• glup 9y ago
  I get a generic error for "Mansard roof" -> "Twister (1996 film)", otherwise very cool!
• daemonk 9y ago
  Might be cool to implement a weighted relationship based on reciprocal linking or number of links.
• jxramos 9y ago
  This thing is pretty dang good, "Golden Ratio" to "Pope Pius X", what could possibly go wrong? Nailed it with "1 path with 2 degrees of separation". "Infinite Series" to "Declaration of Independence", nailed it in "4 paths with 3 degrees of separation". This is a lot of fun
• TuringTest 9y ago
  Incidentally, it´s a good way to find incorrect ambiguous wikilinks. [[Comparison of web browsers]] shouldn´t link directly to [[Gnome]], which is the article about small mythologic humanoids, not about the desktop environment.
• intrasight 9y ago
  Seems broke. Always says "You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that."
• fapjacks 9y ago
  Actually, interestingly, I've been introducing this concept as a "party game" with other nerds at RL gatherings for some years now. The goal is to start on a random page and find the shortest path to another random page by only clicking links in the articles. It can be quite a lot of fun, despite what you're thinking! And anybody can understand the challenge and compete and have fun. It's not just something for geeks.
  • wldcordeiro 9y ago
    I had run into it with specifically how many links to get to the page for Hitler.
  • jnbiche 9y ago
    What is an RL gathering?
    • posterboy 9y ago
      Real Live
    • sincerely 9y ago
      likely stands for "real life"
    • chaseha 9y ago
      RL == "Real Life"
• kazinator 9y ago
  Please make it Ctrl+Scroll to zoom (a UI standard obeyed in umpteen applications!), and leave Scroll alone for scrolling through the page. Nobody wants to have to click outside the graph view to change the state of the UI so that Scroll scrolls the page. (Of course, Ctrl+Scroll is already taken for browser zoom; but hijacking browser zoom in this situation is more acceptable than hijacking vertical scroll).
• imhoguy 9y ago
  Cool poject and very compact! Just quck question, I have found that in Initial setup docs: > Do not use Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) due to degraded performance. Could you elaborate or give some reference about that issue please? Thanks.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Thanks! It's weird, but as soon as I tried upgrading to an identical GCP machine running Debian 9 (stretch) and run my database creation process[1], it took many, many times longer to even download the several GB dumps from Wikipedia via wget than it did on Debian 8 (jessie). As the beefy machine I use for the database creation process costs ~40 cents per hour, I figured it wasn't worth it to upgrade to Debian 9 since the Debian 8 machine finished in one hour and worked fine. After trying it a second time a month later and realizing the same thing happened, I added a note for myself in the README about it. I did find some other reports about it online[2] and just decided it wasn't that critical to upgrade it at the moment. [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow#database-creation-process https://github.com/jwngr/sdow#database-creation-process [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/12/msg00265.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/12/msg00265.html
• pcl 9y ago
  Cool! Since you're using a digraph, it'd be neat to have a UI affordance to reverse the previous search.
• kazinator 9y ago
  Direct link (== 1 deg) between "Lisp (programming languages)" and "C++". However, 5 degrees between Emacs and Vim!
  • fmihaila 9y ago
    > However, 5 degrees between Emacs and Vim! 5 degrees if you pick Vim (disambiguation page). If you pick Vim (text editor) you get 1 degree. Which is interesting, since Vim (disambiguation page) links to Vim (text editor).
• sixstringtheory 9y ago
  Parquetry -> Romeo and Juliet, 46 paths (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Parquetry&target=Romeo%20and%20Juliet https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Parquetry&targ...). None through Shakespeare. Parquetry -> Tromeo and Juliet, 508 paths (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Parquetry&target=Tromeo%20and%20Juliet https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Parquetry&targ...). All through Shakespeare.
  • incompatible 9y ago
    508 paths, nice. I was about to post Wake in Fright -> Las Vegas, which has an amazing 414 paths, but yours is a winner. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Wake%20in%20Fright&target=Las%20Vegas https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Wake%20in%20Fr...
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    • hexane360 9y ago
      https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93Read%20source&target=Woodrow%2C%20Colorado https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93... This isn't really the best measure though, because it only counts # of paths at the minimum depth level. edit: although I found some deep searches with very few links: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93Read%20source&target=Fors%20%28locality%29 https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93...
      • incompatible 9y ago
        I found one with 813 paths with 4 degrees, but yours has 1,645 paths with 5 degrees. I suppose there are end points with many thousands of links. It's a bit of trivia, not really a measure of anything.
      • incompatible 9y ago
        It's a bit surprising, since you'd think that with 1,645 paths with 5 degrees, there'd be at least one path with 4 degrees, but it doesn't work that way.
• Wile_E_Quixote 9y ago
  I think it would be interesting to have a "swap" button between the start and end points, perhaps just under where it says "to". (similar to the swap buttons in translator apps and GPS apps to quickly swap the start and end points) As some other comments have mentioned, the paths are not necessarily the same route or length, and it is fun to see how they might be different.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Good suggestion! I intended to have that exact button, but couldn't find a way to put it in the UI without making things more confusing. I expect I'll add it in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
• nukeop 9y ago
  So by default I block all javascript and I got this message: "Sorry internet hipster, this little side project requires JavaScript." These kinds of condescending messages towards people concerned with privacy aren't going to win you any points here.
  • quickthrower2 9y ago
    It's more funny than condescending.
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  • a888 9y ago
    Yeah, I don't know why this would need javascript.
• TheLoneTechNerd 9y ago
  You should track the "longest shortest paths" of things and display them - has anyone managed to hit 10 degrees of separation, for example? If someone finds one, let us know!
• anm89 9y ago
  https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Chaka%20Khan&target=Genghis%20Khan https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Chaka%20Khan&t... 1 degree between Chaka khan and Ghengis Khan!
• chasedehan 9y ago
  Interesting. I just got sucked into checking a whole bunch of connections. I like it.
• knodi123 9y ago
  This is too much fun. Found 209 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Judge Roy Bean to Unit 731 in 5.35 seconds!
• e0m 9y ago
  I would love to see a list compiled somewhere of two articles with exactly 6 degrees of separation. This is proving to be extremely difficult. In the entire HN thread so far, I only see one so far by dkuder https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%20of%20Kevin%20Bacon&target=Phinney https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%...
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I'm storing all the search results and will do some analysis on the data. Maybe I'll even get around to adding a new page with some of the interesting stuff I find.
  • larkeith 9y ago
    I finally found my first 6-degree path: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ellipsis%20%28linguistics%29&target=MS%20Windoc%20%281899%29 https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ellipsis%20%28... Purell_hack has managed a whopping 9°, based off dkuder's Phinney - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469620
• gabrielrc 9y ago
  That's really cool :-) I have built a very similar project some time ago and although it's not as beautiful and organized as yours, it's pretty fast! It's in Portuguese, but if any of you guys want to check it out: http://wikigraph.russoft.tech/ http://wikigraph.russoft.tech/
• apeace 9y ago
  Did I find a bug? https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Adolf%20Hitler&target=Elon%20Musk https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Adolf%20Hitler... It's showing "Bill Gates" and "Mark Zuckerberg" as the hops, but on the start page I don't see links to those. (Apologies for the subject matter. It was the first thing I thought of, because of a Wikipedia-path-finding game I had heard of before.)
  • larkeith 9y ago
    It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
    • apeace 9y ago
      Thanks! Makes me wonder why those links were in there in the first place...
      • larkeith 9y ago
        That's an excellent question - I'd speculate that they were perhaps mentioned in the passage beginning, ...Further, Haffner claims that other than Alexander the Great, Hitler had a more significant impact than any other comparable historical figure... However, I wasn't able to find out for sure with a quick browse through the page history.
    • mostly_harmless 9y ago
      This is incorrect, that's not the reason they are linked. It is using the category box at the bottom of the page, and both Hitler and Gates were voted 'Times Person of the Year' at some point.
• sleavey 9y ago
  Can you add a link to the title image to go back to the homepage? I try this on pretty much every website out of muscle memory.
  • jwngr 9y ago
    I just added the query string stuff in the URL this morning and didn't even think about this issue. Just made the change as you suggested[1]. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/b9164b4455661d7775aeb78f5e4b713612d6f299 https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/b9164b4455661d7775aeb78...
• purell_hack 9y ago
  After spending way too much time I got 9 degrees of separation. I did piggyback off of someone else's work with "Phinney". https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express&target=Phinney https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express... I found a ton of 5 degree paths and only a couple of 6 degree ones. Then I pulled out the "big guns" (the dead-end pages category). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dead-end_pages_from_February_2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dead-end_pages_from_F...
  • plaguuuuuu 9y ago
    I don't know if this is legit. The Lion Express node only connects to a couple of Wikipedia's generic help pages, which I'm pretty sure don't link back to Lion Express. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
    • purell_hack 9y ago
      Here's one with 7 hops and not using The Lion Express. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Zevenhoven&target=Phinney https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Zevenhoven&tar... Like I said I spent too much time on this yesterday.
  • johan_larson 9y ago
    That's impressive. Wikipedia is highly connected. Even pretty darn different things often seem to have only three degrees of separation. For example, here's Ramesses II to Ankylosaurus in three: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramesses%20II&target=Ankylosaurus https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramesses%20II&... After trying a bunch of things, I finally found a fourth-degree separation: William the Conqueror to Ankylosaurus. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=William%20the%20Conqueror&target=Ankylosaurus https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=William%20the%...
  • pacuna 9y ago
    Damn, I had trouble finding more than 3 degrees
• MurrayHill1980 9y ago
  About 12 years ago, some colleagues (Yehuda Koren and Chris Volinsky) and I proposed a technique for measuring proximity in quasi-random (social) networks, that can handle out-of-memory databases, and more than two query nodes, also finds a visualizable subgraph that represents as much of the relationship as possible using dynamic programming. It is described here (includes some figures): http://web2.research.att.com/export/sites/att_labs/groups/infovis/res/legacy_papers/DBLP-conf-kdd-KorenNV06.pdf http://web2.research.att.com/export/sites/att_labs/groups/in... The proposed heuristic approximates the "cycle-free effective [electrical] conductance" between the query nodes. In this paper, we were able to use anonymized phone calls to confirm 6 degrees of separation. There used to be a live demo on an AT&T Labs website but it is not available now. There are published algorithms for all the phases of the proposed heuristic, but my recollection is that Yehuda found an efficient, robust implementation of k-disjoint-shortest-paths was not easy. This is an interesting problem, thank you for making your work available. (I do agree the HTML form placeholders that change rapidly but are ignored when you press the GO button are a little confusing; it took me a minute or two to figure out what was going on.)
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Thanks a lot for sharing! BTW, I just fixed the confusing interaction with the text input placeholders[1]. [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d221fba81adbbe0259e https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d2...
• dzink 9y ago
  One challenge with Wikipedia data I've struggled with over the years is that knowledge graph and interest graph don't directly overlap. Cancer is about as closely related to Healthcare as Horse is to Astronaut (stronger ties, but same distance).
• tw456 9y ago
  More like seven degrees amirite https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=John%20Arneil&target=Iphiothe%20criopsoides https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=John%20Arneil&...
• raz32dust 9y ago
  Really cool! May be a bug: I tried Martin Luther Ling -> Elon Musk and it showed me a link from MLK -> Mark Zuckerberg -> Musk. But I couldn't find a Zuckerberg link from the MLK page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.&target=Elon%20Musk https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Martin%20Luthe...
  • larkeith 9y ago
    It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
  • rshannon3 9y ago
    I get a similar case with Donald Trump - Banjo Kazooie https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Donald%20Trump&target=Banjo-Kazooie%20%28series%29 https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Donald%20Trump...
  • mostly_harmless 9y ago
    It looks like it uses links in the 'category' box at the bottom of the page. Both MLK and Zuckerberg appear in the 'Times Person of the Year' category.
• wglb 9y ago
  This is a lot of fun. Thanks for doing this.
• maze-le 9y ago
  This is hilarious, from 'Riemann manifold' to 'Grindcore': 196 paths with 5 degrees. [0]: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Riemann%20manifold&target=Grindcore https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Riemann%20mani...
• aplorbust 9y ago
  In case you receive the following message "Sorry internet hipster, this little side project requires JavaScript." here is a quick example of how to get the pages the "traditional way"[FN1]: #/bin/sh test $# -eq 2||exec echo usage: $0 source target; exec curl -H"Content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"source":"'$1'","target":"'$2'"}' \ https://api.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/paths \ |exec sed ' s/\",/\"\ /g;s/,\"/\ \"/g;s/:{/:\ {/g;s/}/&\ /g;s/\"pages\":/&\ /' It appears the author is using the Wikipedia API. I did not add any HTML tags, etc. to the output, although this is very easy to do. FN1. The original "web browsers" needed no GUI, no Javascript.
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  • aplorbust 9y ago
    Example: sdow true false Output: {"isSourceRedirected":false "isTargetRedirected":false "pages": {"161711": {"description":"Value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth" "title":"Truth value" "url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_value"} "228748": {"description":"Wikimedia disambiguation page" "title":"True" "url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True"} "40805040": {"description":"Wikimedia disambiguation page" "title":"False" "url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False"} } "paths":[[228748,161711,40805040]] "sourcePageTitle":"True" "targetPageTitle":"False"} Edit sed commands to make first line indented: |exec sed ' s/{/\ &/; s/\",/\"\ /g;s/,\"/\ \"/g;s/:{/:\ {/g;s/}/&\ /g;s/\"pages\":/&\ /'
  • dmytrish 9y ago
    Now it makes more sense. I'd prefer to have a brief technical explanation why Javascript is needed instead of this condescending labeling. Edit: NoScript is not a luxury for technically minded geeks anymore, it's a necessary protection against tracking, CPU-consuming advertisement and attacks like Spectre/Meltdown and who knows what else Intel has for us.
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• jkprow 9y ago
  Wow, this is awesome work! Two of my classmates and I made something related for our college capstone project: https://wikitree.website https://wikitree.website If the creator happens to read this comment, I'd love to compare notes!
  • jwngr 9y ago
    Very cool! Your UI is great. I like all the animations and the graph is super smooth. All my code is open source[1] and it is decently documented. I'm happy to answer any questions you have and you're more than welcome to use any of the code I wrote for your project. [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
• organman91 9y ago
  Not strictly about separation, but a similar chain-of-links phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
• akoster 9y ago
  Nice job. Reminds me of wikispeedia: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/ http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/
• IronWolve 9y ago
  Seems when I search a person, its mostly LinkedIn and twitter to the other match.
• hydandata 9y ago
  Erlang programming language to Barbra Streisand crashed the browser tab :)
• SeoxyS 9y ago
  The longest path I was able to find is this 5-step path: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Red%20Solo%20Cup&target=Lighter%20fluid https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Red%20Solo%20C...
  • drinkzima 9y ago
    Disambiguation pages are a good source for bad endpoints (here's a 6-er): https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Disambiguation%20%28disambiguation%29&target=Zima https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Disambiguation...
• 8bitsrule 9y ago
  The 'Brady Bunch' links to 'Idi Amin' through George Steinbrenner. Might have known.
• hestipod 9y ago
  This is cool. I love reading Wikipedia so this will enable my habit.
• DIVx0 9y ago
  This is great. I often use "find the bacon number of two wikipedia" as a take-home programming challenge question for software dev candidates.
• okmuhb 9y ago
  Didn't see that coming https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Penis&target=Mary%2C%20mother%20of%20Jesus https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Penis&target=M...
• trendy12 9y ago
  gvgh
• diehell 9y ago
  Really really cool implementation and i like that UI. This inspires me of making kinda six degrees separation of companies by the board directors (businesses) and the political climate in my country.
• danschumann 9y ago
  Vanilla Ice is 3 degrees from apocolyptic literature. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Apocalyptic%20literature&target=Vanilla%20Ice https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Apocalyptic%20...
• dingo_bat 9y ago
  This is probably the best showHN I have ever seen. Efforts like this inspire me to not be lazy.
• grzm 9y ago
  Pretty nifty! Nice visualization and execution. It reminded me of a game a friend of mine wrote as a Greasemonkey script back in the day, where you do the work: http://www.playwikipaths.com http://www.playwikipaths.com
• johnbatch 9y ago
  Found 2,318 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Firebase to Precipitation in 16.80 seconds! https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Firebase&target=Precipitation https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Firebase&targe...
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• gthinkin 9y ago
  This is awesome! Keep up the great work.
• bjornlouser 9y ago
  prokaryote -> hot spring -> FDR -> libertarianism
• mwcmitchell 9y ago
  awww man perfect! i remember playing the wikipedia game a ton in a hs business class, thanks for this!
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• zouhair 9y ago
  Nice, wasn't there some website when one can play against other to who can get from on article to another the fastest?
• Nullabillity 9y ago
  https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Shit%20happens&target=Stefan%20L%C3%B6fven https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Shit%20happens... seems to crash the tab in Firefox, but works fine in Chrome.
• s_dev 9y ago
  Another similar project from years ago came to the conclusion that disregarding "list" wikipedia entries the centre was the article on The United Kingdom. You reach a similar conclusion? http://mu.netsoc.ie/wiki/ http://mu.netsoc.ie/wiki/
• mrgill 9y ago
  This is pretty cool. Great job!
• rtkwe 9y ago
  I'm confused and can't find the final link in this chain. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Late%20capitalism&target=Five%20Nights%20at%20Freddy%27s https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Late%20capital... I'm guessing it's part of an older copy of the page? Is there an easy way to search revisions?
  • jwngr 9y ago
    So the reason is that "Theodore Roosevelt" links to "Freddy Fazbear" (ctrl+f for "Articles related to Theodore Roosevelt" and then click it and then click "Teddy Bears") which redirects to "Friday Night at Freddy's". So, technically, there is a direct link there, albeit through the categories dropdowns. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't have anything in their database dumps identifying if a link is in the article itself versus the categories dropdowns or sources, so I include them all.
• SuperKiwi 9y ago
  If you want to play this as a game : http://2pages.net/wikirace.php http://2pages.net/wikirace.php
• steffenabel 9y ago
  It reminds me of that old xkcd: https://xkcd.com/214/ https://xkcd.com/214/
• OisinMoran 9y ago
  This is wonderful, thanks for sharing! I know you're getting swamped by feature requests, but a button to swap the endpoints would be great. In searching for ever bigger degrees of separation I found myself manually swapping them a lot to see the difference. It could also lessen some of the confusion expressed in this thread about whether these should be different at all. As for how far I've gotten: I've found finite degrees all the way up to seven [1] and also pages with no path from one to the other [2]. I have yet to find a doubly-untraversable path or anything with a degree between seven and infinity, and I suspect the latter to be impossible, especially considering Goldbach's Extremely Strong Conjecture [3]. [1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramjohn&target=Jennings%20Formation https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramjohn&target... [2] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Coln%20Rogers&target=Wenke https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Coln%20Rogers&... [3] https://xkcd.com/1310/ https://xkcd.com/1310/
• bussierem 9y ago
  Did this happen to be inspired by the Extra Credits episodes about gamifying education? It's almost exactly that. Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDLw1zIc94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDLw1zIc94 Addendum - I thought it was a really cool idea, and you made it look amazing! Well done!
• V-2 9y ago
  All I get for every search (no matter what terms) is: "Whoops... something is broken and has been reported. In the mean time, please try a different search."
  • jwngr 9y ago
    It was down for a little while due to the traffic but it's back up and running again.
• PinkMilkshake 9y ago
  I like the little trivia that show up, although sometimes they disappear too quickly. My favorite mentioned which Wikipedia article had the longest article name: Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzukake_no_Ki_no_Michi_de_%22Kimi_no_Hohoemi_o_Yume_ni_Miru%22_to_Itte_Shimattara_Bokutachi_no_Kankei_wa_D%C5%8D_Kawatte_Shimau_no_ka,_Bokunari_ni_Nannichi_ka_Kangaeta_Ue_de_no_Yaya_Kihazukashii_Ketsuron_no_Y%C5%8D_na_Mono https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzukake_no_Ki_no_Michi_de_%22...)
  • jwngr 9y ago
    The full fact list is on GitHub[1]. The fact list was a lot more interesting and important when searches took longer to run. One of the bad things about improving the performance so much was the fact that the facts don't have as long to display :P [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/master/website/src/resources/wikipediaFacts.json https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/master/website/src/resour...
• schindlabua 9y ago
  This is way too addictive. I managed to get a 7! Limit and colimit of presheaves -> Nichkesaisk Formation
• calt 9y ago
  My friends and I used to play this a race. We weren't concerned so much with the number of hops as how quickly we could get here. It was always fun reviewing each round and seeing how everyone got to the destination.