{"id":1067,"date":"2007-01-28T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/28\/six-degrees-of-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2007-01-28T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T10:26:37","slug":"six-degrees-of-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/28\/six-degrees-of-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis at Arcane Gazebo suggests a game: Six Degrees of Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Go to Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the random article<\/a> link in the sidebar.<\/li>\n
  3. Open a second random article in another tab.<\/li>\n
  4. Try to find a chain of links (as short as possible) starting from the first article that leads to the second.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Lacking other bloggy inspiration, I tried it out. My two pages to connect were Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland<\/a> and Home Alone (video game)<\/a>, because God hates me. I did find a chain between them, though:<\/p>\n

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    1. Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Planned Community<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. United States<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Cinema of the United States<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. List of Film Studios<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. Films by Studio<\/a><\/li>\n
    7. 20th Century Fox Films<\/a><\/li>\n
    8. Home Alone (movie)<\/a> (This page mentions the existence of the video game, but doesn’t link to it directly.)<\/li>\n
    9. Super Nintendo Entertainment System<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. List of SNES Games<\/a><\/li>\n
    11. Home Alone (video game)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I said to myself, “Well, that was unlucky… Let’s try another two, and see if we get something better.”<\/p>\n

      The next two random pages were Melbourne Club<\/a> and Behrouz Safarzadeh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      I don’t think I like this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Travis at Arcane Gazebo suggests a game: Six Degrees of Wikipedia Go to Wikipedia. Click the random article link in the sidebar. Open a second random article in another tab. Try to find a chain of links (as short as possible) starting from the first article that leads to the second. Lacking other bloggy inspiration,… Continue reading Six Degrees of Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}