Six Degrees of Wikipedia 296
An anonymous reader notes that someone has applied the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to the articles in Wikipedia. Instead of the relation being "in the same film," he used "is linked to by." From the blog post: "We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the 'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of Wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum [distance])."
I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent... (Score:1, Funny)
And now (Score:5, Funny)
Cool stats though.
Re:I don't know about you... (Score:1, Funny)
No... I'd rather not (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon [wikipedia.org]
Billy Jean King is the center! (Score:5, Funny)
three clicks to to hell:
slashdot
slashdot effect
Larry Niven
Hell
Longest Chain Starting at Kvein Bacon? (Score:1, Funny)
Shortest path from kevin Bacon to Wubi:
Kevin Bacon
Christmas
German language
Unicode
Wubi method
Wubi 86
Wubi
6 clicks needed
Further Proof that... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I read XKCD (Score:5, Funny)
you can do better than that (Score:5, Funny)
this sort of alternate connection generation is known as a double bacon whopper with cheese
Fun games to play with your friends (Score:5, Funny)
Here's proof that number 2 is almost evil. (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft
ASCII
2 (number)
Evil
3 clicks needed
Too bored to make a good pun out of this so please someone else do.
Re:Erdos number, please! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is news? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where All... (Score:5, Funny)
It All Depends Who Wrote the Article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
(1) See an article.
(2) See another unrelated article.
(3) Edit articles 1 and 2 to link to each other.
Complexity O(1). You could write a (very unpopular) bot that links all wikipedia articles.
Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here's proof that number 2 is almost evil. (Score:5, Funny)
e.g.
1. Kevin bacon
2. ?
3. profit!
shortest path (Score:5, Funny)
The Walt Disney Company
Motion Picture Association of America film rating system
Fuck
2 clicks needed
Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Excellent... (Score:5, Funny)
Edit page -> Insert link to old page and hit Save -> View this page.
time-like Bacon distance (Score:5, Funny)
No, I don't know why I'm advocating this.
Re:Link distance (Score:3, Funny)
Shortest path from george bush to satan
George Bush
George H. W. Bush
Andover, Massachusetts
Satan
3 clicks needed
Re:Here's proof that number 2 is almost evil. (Score:5, Funny)
Shortest path from You to Natalie Portman [netsoc.tcd.ie]
Shortest path from Natalie Portman to Hot Grits [netsoc.tcd.ie]
and finally
Shortest path from Natalie Portman to Bed [netsoc.tcd.ie]
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
By way of the Japanese Language evidentally.
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=bukkake&to=catholic+church [netsoc.tcd.ie]
Sex and the Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
From Slashdot to Girl, 3 clicks
From Slashdot to Sex, 2 clicks
From Slashdot to Microsoft, 1 click
Interesting, from Slashdot to your basement (4 clicks), you actually go through Apple, Inc.
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Billy Jean King is the center! (Score:2, Funny)
Its only 1 click form Heaven to hell
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Heaven&to=Hell [netsoc.tcd.ie]
Re:Here's proof that number 2 is almost evil. (Score:3, Funny)
Shortest path from Apple to Evil
Apple
Evil
1 clicks needed
Re:Where All... (Score:3, Funny)
Your lawn is full of grub worms!
Layne