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Did I find a bug? https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Adolf%20Hitler&target=Elon%20Musk https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Adolf%20Hitler.
by 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 agoIt 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 agoThanks! Makes me wonder why those links were in there in the first place...
- larkeith 9y agoThat'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 agoThis 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.