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In college, we'd have contests to see who could get from, say, disney.com to *ahem* inappropriate content the quickest, and with the fewest clicks. If I recall correctly, somebody was able to go from disney.com to playboy.com in something like 4 clicks. With the same idea, you could just select two random wiki pages and have a contest to get from one to the other (thus avoiding getting a 3rd party to click 10 links and clearing the browser history). That would be challenging but sometimes impossible (i really wonder how often - I bet less often than you'd expect). Would be easier to run that one as a timed event instead of a number of clicks. --[[User:Drue|Drue]] 21:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) |
In college, we'd have contests to see who could get from, say, disney.com to *ahem* inappropriate content the quickest, and with the fewest clicks. If I recall correctly, somebody was able to go from disney.com to playboy.com in something like 4 clicks. With the same idea, you could just select two random wiki pages and have a contest to get from one to the other (thus avoiding getting a 3rd party to click 10 links and clearing the browser history). That would be challenging but sometimes impossible (i really wonder how often - I bet less often than you'd expect). Would be easier to run that one as a timed event instead of a number of clicks. --[[User:Drue|Drue]] 21:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) |
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Isn't this exactly like [[N degrees of separation]]? [[User:Jaberwocky6669|Jaberwocky6669]] 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC) |
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rule Clarification?
can you edit the page? This does not always require clicking on a link outside the article. you can often just double click on the article if your logged in and have your pref. set?
- I don't know what the inventors think about it, but I think it wouldn't be ok. For if you edit a page to get to your Homing Page, everyone is back after three or four clicks. Besides you would damage Wikipedia by inserting nonsense links in random articles.
It does involve using a text entry which is not allowed.
An alternative "game" would be to find the 2 pages that are farthest apart on wikipedia.
What if the random page you get as your homming page is an orphan page? For example I just clicked Random Page and I got Molten Sea, which has only one incomming link, from Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles/M-Z. If the orphaned article was added since the last dump and orphan detection then you could start on an article that had no incomming links. . . . Jim 22:05, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Similarly I landed at disambiguation page with no incomming links, other than from that category. Thryduulf 13:17, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Variations
In college, we'd have contests to see who could get from, say, disney.com to *ahem* inappropriate content the quickest, and with the fewest clicks. If I recall correctly, somebody was able to go from disney.com to playboy.com in something like 4 clicks. With the same idea, you could just select two random wiki pages and have a contest to get from one to the other (thus avoiding getting a 3rd party to click 10 links and clearing the browser history). That would be challenging but sometimes impossible (i really wonder how often - I bet less often than you'd expect). Would be easier to run that one as a timed event instead of a number of clicks. --Drue 21:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
N Degrees of separation
Isn't this exactly like N degrees of separation? Jaberwocky6669 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)