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])."
Re:I know the center (Score:5, Insightful)
(me, -1 Obvious)
Erdos number, please! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions? (Score:4, Insightful)
Excluding "list" pages (Score:5, Insightful)
Baconator (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What about language? (Score:3, Insightful)
Stephen Dolan (aka mu)
Re:Billy Jean King is the center! (Score:3, Insightful)
Shortest path from Aptera Motors to Pop Tart
Aptera Motors
California
January 13
American Idol
Pop-Tart
4 clicks needed
Or:
Shortest path from Parking pawl to Fermionic condensate
Parking pawl
1965
Brazil
Chemistry
Fermionic condensate
4 clicks needed
The dates and lists help it out an awful lot; it'd be interesting to see the results if you could exclude them.