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As of 2008, the center of English Wikipedia is the article 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reac
by ignifero 15y ago
As of 2008, the center of English Wikipedia is the article 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reachable from it. Disregarding all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom, at an average of 3.45 clicks to anywhere else.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation#Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation#Wikip...
- JonnieCache 15y ago>the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom I find this absolutely fascinating. Consider that the reason we're at the centre of the world map is because we had the power to choose to put ourselves there, at the point in history when the maps were being drawn. Is that imperial influence, long since waned, still echoing across the years, visible in the wikipedia graph?
- ignifero 15y agoOR, it's just because they used the English wikipedia for it
- JonnieCache 15y agoHah, good point. I wasn't trying to be triumphalist, though I admit it certainly reads that way.