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| Author: | Nevandal [ Sat May 21, 2011 9:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Wikipedia insanity |
 If you can't see the picture, it says if you go to any wikipedia article and click on the first link, skipping links in parentheses, and continue to click the first link in each article, you will always end up on "Philosophy". So far it's worked for everything I've tried. |
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| Author: | Talya [ Sat May 21, 2011 9:43 pm ] |
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It took a couple dozen clicks to get from Orange (fruit) to Philosophy, but it did eventually get there. |
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| Author: | Mookhow [ Sat May 21, 2011 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wikipedia insanity |
Bunch Davies vaccum -> Philosophy in 24 links. |
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| Author: | Aegnor [ Sat May 21, 2011 10:05 pm ] |
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21 clicks for Parkdale Avenue (Ottawa) --> Philosophy |
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| Author: | LadyKate [ Sat May 21, 2011 10:10 pm ] |
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Holy cow, it works. 19 clicks to get from "casual sex" to "Property (Philosophy)" with the first link on that one being "modern philosophy." Huh. How bout that. |
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| Author: | Mookhow [ Sat May 21, 2011 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wikipedia insanity |
Sarah Raphael -> Philosophy took 19 links |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun May 22, 2011 12:01 am ] |
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Scarlet Breasted Fruit Dove to Transient Medicine - 50 links. No Philosophy. Guess I was gullible. Decided not to keep going for the 6 million clicks it might take before the target appeared. |
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| Author: | Vindicarre [ Sun May 22, 2011 12:19 am ] |
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Scarlet Breasted Fruit Dove to Property (philosophy) - 14 links. What did we do differently? |
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| Author: | Lex Luthor [ Sun May 22, 2011 12:23 am ] |
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Vindicarre wrote: Scarlet Breasted Fruit Dove to Property (philosophy) - 14 links. What did we do differently? It doesn't count if you edit Wikipedia for your purposes. 
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| Author: | Vindicarre [ Sun May 22, 2011 12:34 am ] |
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Sorry, Troll, err Lex, I wouldn't go to that much trouble. |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun May 22, 2011 12:35 am ] |
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Vindicarre, we didn't have to do anything differently if the selection is truly random and not a set pattern. If it is a set pattern, I haven't a clue. |
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| Author: | Nevandal [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:09 am ] |
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took me 16 clicks to get from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet-br ... Fruit_Dove to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:20 am ] |
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Did another random run of 50, from Lists of Songs about Montreal to Wolf, no philosophy. Still think its random, no philosophy preference. |
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| Author: | Nevandal [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:25 am ] |
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I'm not sure why it isn't working for ya. go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet-br ... Fruit_Dove click on bird (1) then the next link should be "feathered" (2) ...don't click on "Bird (disambiguation)" or Aves, or Avifauna. Start at the beginning of the actual article and click on the first link that isn't in a parenthesis. It should link you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather Then click on epidermal growths (3) 4-filaments 5-biology 6-natural science 7-science 8-knowledge 9-facts 10-information 11-sequence 12-mathematics 13-quantity 14-property 15-modern philosophy 16-philosophy 16 clicks |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:34 am ] |
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Yes, it works that way, I thought you were going for random clicks, and that philosophy always came up on the random button. As it is, you are following a natural path of logic steps that,the way Wikipedia likes its articles written, blazes a trail that frequently if not always, leads to the sciences which lead to philosophy. |
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| Author: | Nevandal [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:35 am ] |
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Nope, I think what it means by "random" is that you can start at any wikipedia page. But you must always click on the first link for it to work. |
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| Author: | Vindicarre [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:35 am ] |
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Ahh, it's the first non-parenthetical link, Michael. I counted: Property (philosophy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(philosophy) as philosophy, I guess it's supposed to be Philosophy proper.. |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed May 25, 2011 10:55 am ] |
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If you keep going from Philosophy, you get to Alzheimer's Disease, which I find much more eerily appropriate for Wikipedia. |
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| Author: | Lonedar [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:11 am ] |
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: If you keep going from Philosophy, you get to Alzheimer's Disease, which I find much more eerily appropriate for Wikipedia. Ha! |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wikipedia insanity |
Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Nation (disambiguation) -> Nation Infinite loop! Unless Nation (disambiguation) is to be treated as a link in parentheses, in which case you get: Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Sovereign state -> Federated state -> Sovereign state Now, if we're skipping the "for other uses" part... Bettie Page -> American -> Nation -> Sovereign state -> State (polity) -> Social sciences -> Scholarship -> World -> Human -> Taxonomy -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property -> Modern philosophy -> Philosophy On the Property page, if the list were not written in reverse alphabetical order, either of the other two options would lead back to Mathematics creating a third infinite loop. |
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| Author: | TheRiov [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:35 am ] |
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this got a mention on today's XKCD even On my first try I started with Albedo Albedo->Diffuse Reflection->Wavefront->Physics->Natural Science->Science->Knowledge->Fact->Information->Sequence->Mathematics which then produces the loop: Mathematics->Quantity->Magnitude->Order Theory->Mathematics honestly this results suprises me--Philosophy seems like it WOULD come up in this order... |
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| Author: | Squirrel Girl [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:38 am ] |
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At 19, I ended up in an infinite loop involving 'mathmatics'. Started at 'strained yoghurt'. |
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| Author: | Squirrel Girl [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:39 am ] |
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TheRiov wrote: this got a mention on today's XKCD even Mathematics->Quantity->Magnitude->Order Theory->Mathematics ... *boggles* That was the loop! |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:45 am ] |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity There is a "property" link prior to "magnitude" |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed May 25, 2011 12:08 pm ] |
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I should point out, that most (all? I haven't been keeping track) of the things I've tried in Wikipedia have gotten to philosophy via the various languages entries. So we're not alone when everything in Hellfire boils down to semantics.. Wikipedia does, too! |
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