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There is a widespread hypothesis -- Six degrees of separation -- holding that any two people in the world are separated by a chain of no more than six acquaintances. It is perhaps a worthwhile task in studying the character of Wikipedia to see whether something similar obtains among its articles. Six Degrees of Wikipedia (this article) aims to be a compendium of the following things:

  • The items separated by the longest chains in the encyclopædia (especially where these are more than four links long). The shortest known chain between the two items should be specified. Generalisation over time, where possible, seems to produce the shortest chains. Failing this, try generalisation over space to reduce chain length.
  • The most intuitively remote items separated by short chains--chains of fewer than six articles, anyway. That is, these should be items that have no obvious connection but which, nonetheless, can be linked between very quickly. This is a much more subjective category, but should still be interesting; it may be enough to describe these as "interestingly" or "peculiarly" short chains.
  • Using date-to-date links (e.g. 1996 to 1993) is uninteresting and should be avoided.

Tampering with articles for the express reason of changing their degrees of separation is discouraged for the purposes of this project: we aim to clarify how Wikipedia is as it evolves, not to set forth that it should be more or less so. All the same, if this page brings to your attention a place where there just ought to be a link but isn't feel free to correct it (and to correct this page correspondingly).

We will accept only links between actual articles, not "Talk" pages. (If this approach fails to produce interesting connections, it might be worth restricting it in still further ways, like disallowing articles on years or decades, or anything else that might be "too" broad. For now we will not worry about these.) Make sure to specifiy the direction the chain runs in.

Contents

[edit] Six or Three Degree Chains

[edit] Six Degrees

[edit] Three Degrees

[edit] Long shortest chains

===Over 10 steps claimed===

Only takes 3 or 5, depending on direction. George W. Bush → MIT is 3 or 2. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 16:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

There is, according to kate's tool, no path under 10 steps between these articles, however the return path, Vimes to Aliens is only 4 degrees - none of which are date related. Chrisboote

Aliens to Science fiction to Fantasy to List of fantasy authors to Discworld to Vimes (redirects to Samuel Vimes) CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

No path after 10 degrees, but the return path is only 6. Krashlandon (e)

There is, according to kate's tool, no path under 10 steps between these articles. Interesting. Bart133 t 23:30, 27 September 2005 (UTC) MooLatte is orphaned. Bart133 t 21:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

According to kate's tool, no paths under 10 steps exist between these two sets of articles. None are orphaned.

        • De-orphaned the following day Oct 7th. Dlyons493 Talk 21:17, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Snoring to ZZZ. Funnily, no paths under 10 steps exist for these two seemingly related articles. However, the reverse is only 3 steps. -- Daverocks 13:36, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
The only article-space link to ZZZ, List of all three letter acronyms, is orphaned. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 10:15, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Lolicon to Pamela Levy - no path under 10 steps, although the return path is only 4 steps.

Shirt to Button to Plastic to General Electric to NBC Universal to Microsoft to Computer to Laptop Flora 03:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Shirt to Button to Plastic to Silicon to Liquid crystal display to Laptop --White and unnerdy42 22:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 8 steps claimed

Mesencephalic duct to Surrey Central Station

Are You Being Served? to Ponte di Cerreto

[edit] 7 steps claimed

111th Street (New York City Subway station) to Fiacha Cennfinnán


Archerfish to Santa Maria Rupes


Art (Myst) to Alien Tort Statute


Baluchitherium to Byzantian Empire

Gunpowder Plot to -ous

IMRC to Surrey Central Station


Klein Bottle to Puppies


List of consonants to Fiacha Cennfinnán


Monique Alexander to Surrey Central Station


Mouth to Stearns (automobile)


Orphan to Erdos

Proof by verbosity to Rudraige (from: Chains between two random pages)

Rakata (Star Wars) to ESDP Rakata (Star Wars) to 2003 to Euro to E to EZ to List of acronyms and initialisms: E to ESDP

Watch Hill, RI to Gunung Kerinci - both mountains so doubly interesting.

  • Interesting, but what are the steps? Dlyons493 Talk 11:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Zonguldak to Matamata, New Zealand

[edit] 5 steps claimed

Memphis Belle to Mousa Broch

RIAA to Evil

  • As RIAA is a redirect to Recording Industry Association of America this looks more like four steps to me. TomTheHand 19:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Cult to Kool-Aid

You Forgot It in People to Alzheimer's Disease

Moses to Don Mills, Ontario

1706 to Eagle-Vail, Colorado

Naked mole rat to Black hole

Leda Cosmides to Flint the Time Detective

Cargo cult to Conformation show

Directorate-General for Transport and Energy (European Commission) to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior

[edit] Long reverse path

Whereas Bog to Toilet is two steps, Toilet to Bog is 4 steps

[edit] Shortest "unnatural" chains

Where is the link to Star Trek on Natural Environment? Avraham 03:01, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

(many obvious other chains from this e.g.:) Dick Cheney to George W. Bush to Osama bin Laden to Sunflower

[edit] Chains between two random pages

Charyyapadas to Broadstairs

Oatcake to Ukrainian I

The Payolas to Marvin Liebman

Kick to The Face

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli to Classical theory

Sobhuza II of Swaziland to Binnenalster

Vin Mariani to Capital virtues

Baltasar Carlos, Prince of Asturias to Saurodactylus

Hal Colebatch to Liard River

Cyber Team in Akihabara to Mount Carmel Cemetery

Sweet Polly Oliver to Committee of Public Safety

Velociraptor to Jewish services

Coenzyme Q to Rawlins, Wyoming

Gerald Posner to Michel Tremblay

Solna to Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani

Pokémon to Boston Molasses Disaster

Common Grackle to Ambassador Hotel

Ylistaro to Streptococcus pneumoniae

Julius Caesar to Rafael Cordero (educator)

Marsupial to Bridge

Frank Drake to Ramsey Island

Proof by verbosity to Rudraige

Walter Richard Parker to 85

Don Beebe to Haji Ali Dargah

Shoichi Nakagawa to Tallest buildings in Australia

Molson Coors to Chemical elements named after places

Clarkefreak ∞ 22:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hollycombe Steam Collection to Tithonus

Clarkefreak ∞ 03:39, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Crawford Notch to Ferdinand von Saar

Visualization (cam) to Defeated nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court

ad nauseum to Coyville, Kansas in six steps:

Back to The Future

List of names of the official languages of the European Union in the official languages respectively to GoldenEye (song)

Zoe Stark to Port Everglades

Blue Nile Falls to John Norquist

G.728 to Shark Emulator

Venice Commission to Dahntay Jones

Principality of Capua to Grant Waite

[edit] External links

  • Six degrees tool - Finds the shortest path between any two Wikipedia articles in the main namespace using wiki links. The source is also available. (currently does not work)
  • Omnipelagos

[edit] See also

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