I heart wikipedia

[PancaKe]

Yes. Wikipedia is gold.

I love just finding out about anything and everything, and even the weirdest of articles.

So I thought maybe you should share some of the weird and interesting things you can find about on Wikipedia

Here are some I looked up (don't ask why):

Rickrolld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_roll

List of Internet Phenomena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena

Mi Goreng Noodles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi_goreng

Yeah ^__^;

[Heald]

Everything is within 6 clicks of Hitler.

Prove me wrong: click random page, then try to get to Hitler is less than 6 clicks.

My personal maximum is 4 clicks.

[Bulbasaur4]

My favorite is the monster page, where they list all the mythological monsters. *nod*

[Mystic_clown]

I got three clicks from the Rick Roll page ^_^

[PancaKe]

Two clicks from Mi Goreng!

Heald you are a legend.

[Ghost]

Ghost's first attempt at Heald's challenge:
I was directed to Carcinoma's Angels, a short story about Cancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinoma_Angels

From here I was lead to the page on Cancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer

From Cancer, i was lead to a Page about World War 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

From the Page on World War II, I was lead directly to the man himself, Adolf Hitler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

In total, 4 clicks.

Ghost's Second Attempt at Heald's Challenge:

Random Leads to Margherita of Savoy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_of_Savoy

Margherita of Savoy leads to Maria Caroline of Austria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Caroline_of_Austria

Marie Caroline of Austria leads to German Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language

German Language leads to Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

Germany leads to Hitler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

Ghost's third attempt at Heald's Challenge

Random leads to Adolf Hitler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

XD
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I give up and state that what Heald is saying is indeed a fact, for I don't have far enough time to scour and try to prove a counter-example.

Agreed though, I love Wikipedia.

[Blademaster]

Everything is within 6 clicks of Hitler.

Prove me wrong

Too easy. Ahem...

Random Article: ENKA Schools

1. Click to 'Turkey' article.
2. Click to 'Europe' article.
3. Click to 'World War II' article.
4. Click to 'Adolf Hitler' artic-

[PancaKe]

It's just clicking on other articles, right?

Because if it was the related articles link that would be much harder.

[Jeff]

Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten
Exploding whale
Toilets in Japan

[shazza]

Too easy. Ahem...

Random Article: ENKA Schools

1. Click to 'Turkey' article.
2. Click to 'Europe' article.
3. Click to 'World War II' article.
4. Click to 'Adolf Hitler' artic-

You cunts are almost breaking Rules 1 and 2.

[Jeff]

Not to mention Godwin's law.

[Heald]

You cunts are almost breaking Rules 1 and 2.

I didn't realise you swung in that neck of the woods.

Although I could've guessed.

[shazza]

I didn't realise you swung in that neck of the woods.

Although I could've guessed.

I could tell for awhile now that you and Blademaster do.

[Heald]

I could tell for awhile now that you and Blademaster do.

I'm not sure whether that's a compliment or not.

[Dark Sage]

Just like the "Six Degrees of Keven Bacon" game.

[Jeff]

Ooh, there's an idea.

Kevin Bacon > United States > World War II > Adolf Hitler

[Blademaster]

You cunts are almost breaking Rules 1 and 2.

I'm not a /b/tard. I just steal a lot of their shit. Random board, Random God. It seems to fit.

As an example, I'll steal something from them right now. Ahem...

"Rules 1 and 2 only apply to RAIDS. gb2gaia newfag"

I'm pretty sure I did that right.

[Houndoom_Lover]

I heart wikipedia too! ^_^ It burns my cookies that school scorns it.

[PancaKe]

Just like the "Six Degrees of Keven Bacon" game.

Kevin Bacon?

Thank goodness for wikipedia. I've never heard of him in my life

[Ghost]

Theoretically you could reach any page of your choice in 6 clicks.. Try it out.

[Blademaster]

^I tried to reapply Heald's Godwinian theory with Mario; the first random article I got was 'Command and control (military).' It lead to Hitler in 4 posts. It took 9 to get to Mario the first time, and 7 the second time.

[Ghost]

^I tried to reapply Heald's Godwinian theory with Mario; the first random article I got was 'Command and control (military).' It lead to Hitler in 4 posts. It took 9 to get to Mario the first time, and 7 the second time.

Well, maybe some things not as popular as Mario (in the Wikipedia sense of things) would be able to apply to this, but I've made it from a pueblan god to Michael Jordan. It's just a matter of looking in the right places

[DarkTemplarZero]

Random -> Parade of the Award Nominees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_...Award_Nominees)

Quite promising XD. From there, the closest I managed to find was 5 clicks:

-> Academy Awards -> Academy Award for Best Picture -> Saving Private Ryan -> World War II -> Hitler
or
-> Academy Awards -> Academy Award for Best Picture -> Schindler's List -> Holocaust -> Hitler
or
-> Academy Awards -> Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film -> List_of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film -> Downfall -> Hitler
or
-> Academy Awards -> Academy Award for Documentary Feature -> Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (which surprisingly doesn't link to Hitler) -> Nazi Germany -> Hitler

Strangely I can't find anything closer. Anybody else have anything?

[shazza]

Random articles:
List of colonial governors in 1600
New Spain
United States
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

Xanthomonas vesicatoria
Bacteria
Pollution
World War II
Adolf Hitler

Soul Catcher (novel)
Novel
Literature
List of books
List of books about Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Guzew, Łódź Voivodeship
Poland
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

Epena District
Republic of the Congo
Republic
World War II
Adolf Hitler

State Administration of Work Safety
Government of the People's Republic of China
Communist Party of China
Mao Zedong
Adolf Hitler

Music for UNICEF Concert
ABBA
Swedish
Sweden
Adolf Hitler

Nipper (tool)
Rail tracks
Rail transport
Locomotive
Emsland
Germany
Adolf Hitler

DarkTemplarZero's challenge:
Academy Awards
1929
Germany
Adolf Hitler

TPM-themed:
Pokémon
Judaism
Holocaust theology
Adolf Hitler

[mistysakura]

Random articles fun.

Lower Kananaskis Lake
Lake
Northern Hemisphere
Europe
Adolf Hitler

Jack Parker (speedway rider)
England
Germany
Adolf Hitler

Gaetano Belloni
Italy
Adolf Hitler

Sigh.

Vaudoncourt, Vosges
France
Franco-Belgian comics
Manga
Pokemon

Herbert Benson
(Hehe, using the Living People category is probably cheating, so instead I'll go for) Spirituality
Nirvana
Nirvana (UK band)
Progressive Rock
Mike Portnoy
Muse

Australian Pay and Classification Scale
Australia
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

So, it isn't Hitler; everything is six clicks away from everything else

DarkTemplarZero's challenge:
Parade of the Award Nominees
1932
Adolf Hitler

Oh yeah, randomly looking at other people's random articles: I thought Margherita of Savoy looked promising. So:
Margherita of Savoy
Italian Fascism
Adolf Hitler

Whee.

[Starry Might]

Should we change the name of this topic to "The Nth Degrees of Adolf Hitler" and move it into PCG?

Anyhow, getting back on the original topic, yeah, Wikipedia is cool! (That list of Internet Phenomenon - the older versions more so - helped me discover many memes and stuff!)

[MToolen]

I, too, heart Wikipedia. It's a great outlet for both my band geekiness and my grammar Nazism. When I went to the Abraham Lincoln library for a class, the head librarian would only refer to it as "the Wikipedia." It's still an in-joke for a few of us nerds.

[Jeff]

I still don't get why some people refer to it as "the" Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the name of the site. No one refers to this place as "the" Pokémasters. Oh wait, nevermind...

[Starry Might]

I, too, heart Wikipedia. It's a great outlet for both my band geekiness and my grammar Nazism. When I went to the Abraham Lincoln library for a class, the head librarian would only refer to it as "the Wikipedia." It's still an in-joke for a few of us nerds.

Hey!

You seem familiar to me![/offtopic]