On: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

[cortesoft]

This 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.

[arglebarnacle → cortesoft]

According 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

[jffry → cortesoft]

There's even a great page with a small graph and a rundown of some more resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

[cortesoft → jffry]

It even works for that page!

[aidenn0 → cortesoft]

Finding ones that don't go through "science" is interesting.

[freefal → cortesoft]

Woah. This works. Neat.