Getting to Philosophy
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- rabbit
Clicking on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually eventually gets one to the Philosophy article.
As of May 26, 2011, 94.52% of all articles in Wikipedia lead eventually to the article Philosophy. The remaining 100,000 (approx.) links to an article with no wikilinks or with links to pages that do not exist, or get stuck in loops (all three are equally probable). The median link chain length to reach philosophy is 23.
Try for yourself its true.
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- Morning_star0
Good find.
There goes the rest of my afternoon.
- drgs0
- uan0
- renderedred0
nice!
- uan0
but I think the all cross at 'Science' before linking down to Philosophy
- Except for religion, of course ;)rabbit
- Ghost.Morning_star
- it was me then...all searches that it could imagine led to Philosophy passing through Science.uan
- monospaced1
I'm pretty sure they all go through Kevin Bacon at some point before getting down to Philosophy.
- sarahfailin0
there should be a link directly from knowledge to philosophy-- someone isn't doing their job! lazy wikipedians
- iCanHazQBN0
I just tried it with Kim Kardashian. Took 9 clicks.