Author Topic: Everything on wikipedia links back to philosophy (Read 13637 times)

Genowyn · « **Reply #70 on:** May 22, 2011, 06:10:49 PM »

Someone edited the page for Quantity so the first link wasn't Property.

Quote from: mrjazzguitar on May 22, 2011, 05:54:46 PM

this one takes 36 clicks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artland_(anime_studio)

I guess Mushishi was not as philosophical as I thought.

ddtonfire · « **Reply #71 on:** May 22, 2011, 06:30:31 PM »

Hannibal Lecter - 33.

Ultimetalhead · « **Reply #72 on:** May 22, 2011, 06:32:52 PM »

Damn. Good find.

The Degenerate · « **Reply #73 on:** May 22, 2011, 06:50:13 PM »

Broke it with "Tentacle erotica". It leads to "Gothic fiction" and eventually goes into a loop. However, that's because on the "Gothic fiction" page, clicking "literature" leads you to... "Gothic fiction" (seemingly because of an event in the past where the "Gothic fiction" and "Gothic literature" [where it tries to go] pages were merged). If it brought you to the actual literature page it would eventually end up at philosophy. Clicking the second link on the Gothic fiction page, "horror [fiction]", eventually loops as well, so there's something that seems to genuinely break it.

I think we can say: pages either eventually link to philosophy, or end up looping.

ScioPath · « **Reply #74 on:** May 22, 2011, 07:50:09 PM »

Quote from: The Degenerate on May 22, 2011, 06:50:13 PM

Broke it with "Tentacle erotica". It leads to "Gothic fiction" and eventually goes into a loop. However, that's because on the "Gothic fiction" page, clicking "literature" leads you to... "Gothic fiction" (seemingly because of an event in the past where the "Gothic fiction" and "Gothic literature" [where it tries to go] pages were merged). If it brought you to the actual literature page it would eventually end up at philosophy. Clicking the second link on the Gothic fiction page, "horror [fiction]", eventually loops as well, so there's something that seems to genuinely break it.

I think we can say: pages either eventually link to philosophy, or end up looping.

Obviously. There isn't an infinite number of Wikipedia pages so it has to come to a loop at some point.

Metro · « **Reply #75 on:** May 22, 2011, 08:03:11 PM »

5/8 clicks for Dream Theater

Wait a minute....

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #76 on:** May 22, 2011, 08:42:34 PM »

Quote from: ScioPath on May 22, 2011, 07:50:09 PM

Obviously. There isn't an infinite number of Wikipedia pages so it has to come to a loop at some point.

I KNEW IT!

kári · « **Reply #77 on:** May 23, 2011, 02:04:24 AM »

Sigur Rós doesn't.

veronica · « **Reply #78 on:** May 23, 2011, 02:39:59 AM »

It did for me. (Took a lot of clicks, though.)

kári · « **Reply #79 on:** May 23, 2011, 03:07:54 AM »

I see what I did wrong, I ignored all the words in parentheses and then I clicked on "internal reconstruction" on "Comparative method"'s page, instead of linguistics.

jasc15 · « **Reply #80 on:** May 23, 2011, 09:07:30 AM »

chknptpie · « **Reply #81 on:** May 23, 2011, 10:04:27 AM »

Does Philosophy link to itself?

Adami · « **Reply #82 on:** May 23, 2011, 10:08:56 AM »

Quote from: chknptpie on May 23, 2011, 10:04:27 AM

Does Philosophy link to itself?

Quote from: Adami on May 21, 2011, 09:02:10 PM

If you keep going, it takes you to Group, which is pretty much just a bunch of links.

LieLowTheWantedMan · « **Reply #83 on:** May 23, 2011, 10:09:15 AM »

Really? Only 3 clicks for me...

kári · « **Reply #84 on:** May 23, 2011, 10:42:52 AM »

Road loops.

Global Laziness · « **Reply #85 on:** May 24, 2011, 10:38:22 PM »

Today's xkcd:

Alt text:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

Mbarak · « **Reply #86 on:** May 24, 2011, 11:21:32 PM »

Quote from: Jamesman on May 21, 2011, 08:50:59 AM

13 clicks for penis

29 clicks for DT. Of course, it took a long time

Took 19 clicks for Agalloch, and that is with skipping Greek definitions. Agalloch more philosophical than DT?

jasc15 · « **Reply #87 on:** May 25, 2011, 06:50:46 AM »

Quote from: Global Laziness on May 24, 2011, 10:38:22 PM

Today's xkcd:

*snip*

Alt text:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

Not surprised someone beat me to it.

chknptpie · « **Reply #88 on:** May 25, 2011, 01:13:18 PM »

Either I'm doing it wrong or I found a hole in this theory. Started with Frank Hannon and get stuck in a loop of science-knowledge-facts-information-symbols-numerals-writing system-symbolic system-psychology-science

jasc15 · « **Reply #89 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:38:27 PM »

Quote from: chknptpie on May 25, 2011, 01:13:18 PM

Either I'm doing it wrong or I found a hole in this theory. Started with Frank Hannon and get stuck in a loop of science-knowledge-facts-information-symbols-numerals-writing system-symbolic system-psychology-science

I started with Frank Hannon too, but came to the Property (Philosophy) - Mathematics - Quantity loop.

bosk1 · « **Reply #90 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:44:39 PM »

Quote from: Ultimetalhead on May 22, 2011, 05:11:55 PM

Quote from: lonestar on May 22, 2011, 05:08:13 PM
I got up to 38 with penis, then it stared looping. Closest I got was 'greek philosopher'.
Only took me 20.

Well, you do know they come in different sizes, right? Maybe his is just bigger than yours.

7StringedBeast · « **Reply #91 on:** May 25, 2011, 06:00:18 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_set

click the first link on this page. Mathematics. LOL

Edit: oh no don't think its working anymore!

Edit edit: Yeah its not working anymore. The first two times I clicked it, it sent me to the Rick Astley page haha.

ddtonfire · « **Reply #92 on:** May 31, 2011, 03:53:01 PM »

Many of those articles have been locked because of edit warring over this very phenomenon.

Nighthawkwill7 · « **Reply #93 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:32:04 PM »

Pokémon - 22 Clicks

alirocker08 · « **Reply #94 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:46:23 PM »

Blackheads: 15 clicks. I'm amazed. Going to do it with a childhood programme now...

W.I.T.C.H: 20 clicks.

Mind.

Blown.

I could do this all night...

JosephAOI · « **Reply #95 on:** May 31, 2011, 05:34:40 PM »

Winds (the band) took me 23 clicks
Cap'n Crunch took 19
Allan Holdsworth took 16
Weird...

TimmyHiggy · « **Reply #96 on:** May 31, 2011, 06:07:04 PM »

Shall we start routing every page so we always end up at kevin moore?

Global Laziness · « **Reply #97 on:** May 31, 2011, 06:45:44 PM »

Quote from: TimmyHiggy on May 31, 2011, 06:07:04 PM

Shall we start routing every page so we always end up at kevin moore?

How exactly would you do that?

TimmyHiggy · « **Reply #98 on:** May 31, 2011, 06:48:37 PM »

largely through edits I imagine...

On a more serious note, can we have DTF rigged so that the first word in the OP of every thread automatically gets hyperlinked to the kevin moore wiki page?

LieLowTheWantedMan · « **Reply #99 on:** May 31, 2011, 06:50:22 PM »

Quote from: Global Laziness on May 31, 2011, 06:45:44 PM

Quote from: TimmyHiggy on May 31, 2011, 06:07:04 PM
Shall we start routing every page so we always end up at kevin moore?

How exactly would you do that?

Find the pages where the first link is philosophy and make the first link Kevin Moore.

kári · « **Reply #100 on:** June 01, 2011, 04:19:49 AM »

Just link Philosphy to through some path Kevin Moore and make a loop.

Pirate · « **Reply #101 on:** June 01, 2011, 04:41:39 AM »

Steven Wilson - 31 clicks

Kevin Moore - 16 clicks

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