Kaffis Mark V wrote:
FarSky wrote:
Got it in 6!
Hmm.
Was it these 6?
Spoiler:
That's it.
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| Author: | Elessar [ Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:31 pm ] |
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So, I know I'm not the only one here who has found themselves lost in Wikipedia with a bunch of articles tabbed up to read. Last night I finished up reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (good read by the way), and after reading a novel by an author whom I've never read before I like to hop on Wikipedia and get a little infomartion about them for curiousity's sake. Over an hour later, it was past my bed time and I found myself reading about the 2 bombs dropped on Japan in WW2. So I went from Truman Capote --> Little Boy / Fat Man. What's your craziest chain of Wikipedia articles? |
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| Author: | Taamar [ Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adventures on Wikipedia... |
Elessar wrote: What's your craziest chain of Wikipedia articles? Hell if I know, I spend HOURS on wiki. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:25 pm ] |
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Just this morning, I went from Michael York, to Gerrard's Cross (where he was born), to Jethro Tull (who mention Gerrard's Cross in a song), to the various band members who are no longer with them, mainly the bassists and a drummer. Could have gotten sucked into the English educational system, which I don't fully understand, but thankfully I pulled myself back from the brink. |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adventures on Wikipedia... |
People make games out of this very concept. I want to say it was mentioned a long time ago on some iteration of the Glade, but by this point, what hasn't? :p For example! Start with the Wikipedia entry for dashi, a Japanese culinary mainstay... and see how few clicks it can take you to get to, say, the Wikipedia entry for Mjöllnir! Got it in 8, but I think I did poorly... :p |
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| Author: | NephyrS [ Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:04 pm ] |
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I just had to play, btw: Dashi to Mjollnir in 7 clicks ;-P Although I think I could optimize the route. |
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| Author: | Elessar [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:06 pm ] |
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Wow you guys did well. I took way more than that. My clickfu isnt so hot though. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:37 pm ] |
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Got it in 6! |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:17 pm ] |
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FarSky wrote: Got it in 6! Hmm. Was it these 6? Spoiler: I got it in 7 initially, after following Spoiler: but seeing a 6 made me figure there was someplace to trim, and sure enough, I found my revised second click farther down the page, and figured it'd jump straight to the middle. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:44 pm ] |
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: FarSky wrote: Got it in 6! Hmm. Was it these 6? Spoiler: That's it.
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| Author: | NephyrS [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:42 am ] |
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Heh, I went a completely different way. Spoiler: |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adventures on Wikipedia... |
Another 6 Spoiler: I can't even find the 8 path I took earlier. :p somehow ended up on Italian Cuisine early on when I felt really inefficient about it, hence my worry of 8 not being so hot... Anyway this one has about run its course. Half of the fun is coming up with your own start->destination combo! We need an Oracle of Baconesque application for this, but I imagine Wikipedia is much too large for any computer program to properly figure out what is the shortest route and such. I do wonder if we could come up with any that takes a lot more than 6 to get through. Wikipedia does tend to get a little rough around the edges when you get to really unpopular stuff, though, so maybe the quality degrades too much to feel fair and comparable? |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:02 am ] |
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Wait! Sorry, I was wrong before when I recounted my path (multitasking with work at 11pm and control of remote computers FTL). My path was a hybrid of what Kaffis and Noggel would take. Spoiler: You know, what's evil about this game is the ease of cheating...say, add in a link to Norway directly onto the Sardine page and then claim to do it in five.
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:46 am ] |
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Clearly, entries should only be allowed if you disclose your Wiki username, so you can be disqualified if you added any links which you use (perhaps a statute of limitations can be set). In which case, I'm screwed, as I don't have one. |
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