[HN Gopher] Six Degrees of Wikipedia ___________________________________________________________________ Six Degrees of Wikipedia Author : EndXA Score : 23 points Date : 2023-12-20 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com) | takoid wrote: | This is very similar to and likely inspired by the Six Degrees of | Kevin Bacon: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon | CharlesW wrote: | "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is a play on "Six Degrees of | Separation", which they link to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation | java-man wrote: | Somewhat related to Getting to Philosophy phenomenon [0]. | | Interestingly, there are only 3 degrees between Banana slug [1] | and Ergodicity [2]. I thought there will be more and Philosophy | [3] would be one of them. I was wrong. | | [0] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug | | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity | | [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy | vinni2 wrote: | Traversing the hyperlinks to find shortest path gives less | interesting results. They should have considered some kind of | weights to assign some importance to the edges like how many | times two entities are mentioned together or if they are | mentioned in the first paragraph of each other etc. This is much | weaker than 6 degrees of separation. | CephalopodMD wrote: | This is delightful! | | The UI looks a little ugly, but the UX is really great! I love | the fun facts while loading, and how you're able to test the app | right on the landing page. The graph is cool too, and I | legitimately feel motivated to show this to other people. | vinni2 wrote: | This is similar to Erdos number | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number | dang wrote: | Related: | | _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595821 - Sept 2021 (67 | comments) | | _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444053 - June 2021 (1 | comment) | | _Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468196 - Feb 2018 (324 | comments) | | _Six Degrees of Wikipedia_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201513 - May 2008 (7 | comments) | i-am-gizm0 wrote: | Hugged? | codethief wrote: | > Found 218 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Adolf Hitler | to Wet T-shirt contest in 54.73 seconds! | | Finally we know! | _jal wrote: | Lambda Calculus -> Lorena Bobbitt was 4 degrees. | | I feel like the existence of pages like "List of notable people | from Buffalo, NY" are sort of cheating this sort of thing. | piotr-yuxuan wrote: | Fails on this couple of bilingual link: | | https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ecc%C3%A9it%C3... | wardedVibe wrote: | Interesting, the automated version of racing wikipedia pages: | | https://wikispeedrun.org/ | | Though the path it gives from Manifestiny | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny to Homo Sapiens | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human seems to go through a | hyperlink not found on the page? Might be buried in versioning or | other languages though. | scohesc wrote: | I recall a website maybe around a decade ago that "sort of" did | this, except it was called Hitler Hops - and it posited that any | article on Wikipedia was only (i think) 6 articles away from | getting to Adolf Hitler. You'd put in an article and it would | find how many "hops"/articles it took to get to the guy. | | Was an interesting concept, not sure if it's still around though | (probably not). | haskaalo wrote: | I built a similar website this summer https://wikisp.fanor.dev ! | The source code is also open source | https://github.com/haskaalo/wikisp | | Its built from Wikipedia dumps in July. Links in articles | shouldn't have changed much by now but updating the data set | takes quite a long time! | | One of my first project that taught me that gathering and | cleaning data in data science is a long task, even if automated. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-20 23:00 UTC)