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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

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
TremendousJudge 9y ago
yeah I just cheated by using orphaned articles and managed to 'win'

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

TremendousJudge 9y ago

yeah I just cheated by using orphaned articles and managed to 'win'