Interesting! I clicked one of the random pages on the home page and this is the path it took (21 links total): Expo 2020 Arabic Semitic Languages Afroasiatic Languages Language Family...
Interesting! I clicked one of the random pages on the home page and this is the path it took (21 links total):
Expo 2020
Arabic
Semitic Languages
Afroasiatic Languages
Language Family
Communication
Academic discipline
Knowledge
Fact
Experience
Consciousness
Sentience
Emotion
Mental State
Mind
Thought
Idea
Abstraction
Rule of inference
Philosophy of logic
Philosophy
What I find interesting is that it only took 7 clicks to get to something somewhat close to Philosophy (Academic discipline), but twice as many to go from there to Philosophy itself.
edit- also check out this site from the wiki page's references -- https://www.xefer.com/wikipedia Shows a really neat tree diagram of the path taken. It'll show connecting branches between terms to show common paths taken to Philosophy.
This is really interesting. I tried the same thing with today's featured article and it followed a very similar path as your article. Here was my route: Solo Man Subspecies Taxonomy (biology)...
This is really interesting. I tried the same thing with today's featured article and it followed a very similar path as your article. Here was my route:
Solo Man
Subspecies
Taxonomy (biology)
Biology
Science
Latin
Classical Language
Language
Communication ##from here on out, my path is exactly the same as yours##
Academic Discipline
Knowledge
Fact
Experience
Consciousness
Sentience
Emotion
Mental State
Mind
Thought
Idea
Abstraction
Rule of inference
Philosophy of logic
Philosophy
I'm thinking that probably what is happening is that for a lot of pages the first link is going to be a to a language because the first thing in the article is an etymology of the title of the article. So once you get to a page with an etymology like that, it wont take long to go from the specific language to a language family to Communication, and once you hit communication you're guaranteed to hit philosophy.
I thought this was absolutely fascinating: Clicking on the first link in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, will end up at the...
I thought this was absolutely fascinating: Clicking on the first link in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, will end up at the article for "Philosophy" 97% of the time.
(Not sure of which tilde to file this under; I filed under ~humanities because of the connection to philosophy)
Edit: I got this from a pretty good BBC documentary called "The Joy of Data" - which is mentioned in the Wikipedia article. It can be found on YouTube, but probably not "legit", so I won't link it.
I've been wondering lately if there is the equivalent for other services. Like, if you shuffle Spotify for long enough, will everyone eventually get to the same song?
I've been wondering lately if there is the equivalent for other services. Like, if you shuffle Spotify for long enough, will everyone eventually get to the same song?
Interesting! I clicked one of the random pages on the home page and this is the path it took (21 links total):
Expo 2020
Arabic
Semitic Languages
Afroasiatic Languages
Language Family
Communication
Academic discipline
Knowledge
Fact
Experience
Consciousness
Sentience
Emotion
Mental State
Mind
Thought
Idea
Abstraction
Rule of inference
Philosophy of logic
Philosophy
What I find interesting is that it only took 7 clicks to get to something somewhat close to Philosophy (Academic discipline), but twice as many to go from there to Philosophy itself.
edit- also check out this site from the wiki page's references -- https://www.xefer.com/wikipedia Shows a really neat tree diagram of the path taken. It'll show connecting branches between terms to show common paths taken to Philosophy.
This is really interesting. I tried the same thing with today's featured article and it followed a very similar path as your article. Here was my route:
Solo Man
Subspecies
Taxonomy (biology)
Biology
Science
Latin
Classical Language
Language
Communication ##from here on out, my path is exactly the same as yours##
Academic Discipline
Knowledge
Fact
Experience
Consciousness
Sentience
Emotion
Mental State
Mind
Thought
Idea
Abstraction
Rule of inference
Philosophy of logic
Philosophy
I'm thinking that probably what is happening is that for a lot of pages the first link is going to be a to a language because the first thing in the article is an etymology of the title of the article. So once you get to a page with an etymology like that, it wont take long to go from the specific language to a language family to Communication, and once you hit communication you're guaranteed to hit philosophy.
Also in the references is Six Degrees of Wikipedia which shows the shortest route between two wiki pages
Interesting it took so long to get from "Fact" to "Philosophy".
I thought this was absolutely fascinating: Clicking on the first link in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, will end up at the article for "Philosophy" 97% of the time.
(Not sure of which tilde to file this under; I filed under ~humanities because of the connection to philosophy)
Edit: I got this from a pretty good BBC documentary called "The Joy of Data" - which is mentioned in the Wikipedia article. It can be found on YouTube, but probably not "legit", so I won't link it.
Good spot!
I've been wondering lately if there is the equivalent for other services. Like, if you shuffle Spotify for long enough, will everyone eventually get to the same song?
I'm not sure but if it did happen it would probably be Mr Brightside by The Killers
I remember learning about this from the alt text of this relevant xkcd.