A Wikipedia Experiment
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Damn, I thought the "Ash" link in the wood page would take me to a disambiguation page and I could go through the surnames and fictional characters.
(tries new strategy)
EDIT: I got nothin'. I also just remembered Ash isn't his surname... dammit (puts bag over head and hangs head in shame).
(tries new strategy)
EDIT: I got nothin'. I also just remembered Ash isn't his surname... dammit (puts bag over head and hangs head in shame).
Well, you didn't win, but I like your thinking.Uncompetative said:
So, it's A book of the dead, but not quite THE book of the dead (Abdul Alhazred's, that is). Not that THAT book of the dead is a genuine article; it's just a literary device (A MacGuffin) by Lovecraft.
EDIT: if we carry on from your book of the dead link: Book_of_the_Dead_(disambiguation)>>Necronomicon>>Cthulhu_Mythos_in_popular_culture>>The_Evil_Dead... Okay, so between these links and yours it's more than five, and that's the number another poster arrived at. So, again, not quite, but I like your style.
Good point. You've obviously seen the film more recently than me - or have a far better memory.matsugawa said:
I forgot about the whole Sumerian business.
I was actually hunting for tree rape.
No luck though.
;-)
Has anyone yet pointed out that this is a version of the venerable old wikipedia game on /b/ where you hit random article and then had to get to Adolf Hitler? The only rule was that you couldn't use the WW2 article.
It was easy though because just about every article has the name of a country in it. From there you go to the country's page and nearly every country was involved in WW2 so you just had to bridge to Germany from there and you could do it. Basically every article that isn't a day-old stub is 3 links from Hitler.
It was easy though because just about every article has the name of a country in it. From there you go to the country's page and nearly every country was involved in WW2 so you just had to bridge to Germany from there and you could do it. Basically every article that isn't a day-old stub is 3 links from Hitler.
Did it. Easy enough.Fniff said:
- Wood
- Wood as a medium
- Elm
- The Elm in English Literature
- Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Gothic Fiction
- Vampire
- Undead
- Zombie
- Zombies in popular culture
- The Evil Dead (franchise)
I understand other people have done it already, but surely I have to get some cookies (hint hint) for such an amazingly diverse collection of articles?
Eh? Since when has the escapist had a thread dedicated to the wikipedia game? Possibly my favorite bus pastime is playing it on my blackberry (with a friend obviously, I'm not quite that sad).
I did it IN ten...Mosine said:
Yoga-Indian subcontinent-Asia-Japan-Culture of Japan-Anime-Television progammes-list of television programmes by name-The Simpsons-Homer J. Simpson
I admit to having saved reading every post by searching each page for the word "degree" but surely someone has already broken this game by posting the link to Six Degrees of Wikipedia [http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/], a website analysing Wikipedia cross-linking.
Currently broken on it is a feature allowing a user to search the shortest possible route between any two articles.
But it's worth noting that the average number of clicks required to get from one article to another is 4.573 whilst the average number of clicks required to get to Kevin Bacon is 3.98.
Currently broken on it is a feature allowing a user to search the shortest possible route between any two articles.
But it's worth noting that the average number of clicks required to get from one article to another is 4.573 whilst the average number of clicks required to get to Kevin Bacon is 3.98.
