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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 ho
by 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 agoIndeed. 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 agoGame 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 agoThere 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 agoIf 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.
- swalsh 9y agoHilarious, my first search was "OFDM -> Hitler" for some completely unknown reason. (2 steps for the curious)
- cortesoft 9y agoThis reminds me of the wikipedia rule I learned a while back: If you click the first link in an article (besides the pronunciation guide), you will always end up on philosophy.
- freefal 9y agoWoah. This works. Neat.
- jffry 9y agoThere's even a great page with a small graph and a rundown of some more resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
- cortesoft 9y agoIt even works for that page!
- aidenn0 9y agoFinding ones that don't go through "science" is interesting.
- arglebarnacle 9y agoAccording to the wikipedia page about this rule/game, over 97% of pages have this property. Interestingly, "Mathematics" seems to be a rare exception. You get stuck in a loop: Mathematics -> Quantity -> Multitude -> Counting -> Elements -> Mathematics
- 2T1Qka0rEiPr 9y agoMy colleague saw me looking at this site, and I went through exactly the same thought process as you! His feeble attempts at non-Hitler linked articles failed miserably.