The Wikipedia Thread

[Draehl]

We have one for Youtube, so why not Wikipedia? Link cool shit, etc.

I'll start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal Deepest and oldest lake and largest surface freshwater source in the world. Never heard of it until today. Cool beans.

 

[Ryuuzaki]

I don't know. I found this confusing when I came across it one day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Zombie

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Lake Baikal is the only place in the world that has a species of fresh water seal.
The philosophical zombie article is weird.
I like hitting the random article link on Wikipedia sometimes to see what I get. I'll try it now, as a matter of fact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–09_in_Danish_football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_2506
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsara_(2011_film)
Interesting articles are interesting.

 

[Chanakya]

What the hell?! @ Samsara

I was going to name my band/project Samsara.

 

[waif]

Anyone else ever play the Hitler game when bored? Hit random article, then get to Hitler as fast as possible by clicking links within the article. You can do variations, such as never using the same last article twice or getting to Hitler in under x clicks.
Used to play that with friends when bored, back in high school.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Anyone else ever play the Hitler game when bored? Hit random article, then get to Hitler as fast as possible by clicking links within the article. You can do variations, such as never using the same last article twice or getting to Hitler in under x clicks.
Used to play that with friends when bored, back in high school.

Sounds fun. I'll try:

Home page > Wheelchair rugby at the 2008 Summer Paralympics > Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium > Simplified Chinese characters > People's Republic of China > Japan > World War II > Adolf Hitler

7 steps. Not as good as Kevin Bacon, but it still goes to show: everything comes back to Hitler.

 

[waif]

Camille Tourville>Canada>World War II>Adolf Hitler
BOOM.
Too easy, though.

 

[Valerie]

Mikhaylov Island
Antarctica
Continent
Europe
Germany
Adolf Hitler




Interesting game.


Natalia Czerwonka
Poland
World War II
Adolf Hitler

edit: even shorter

United States Hockey League (1945–1951)
World War II
Adolf Hitler

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Yamaha DX1 -> Kraftwerk -> Düsseldorf -> Germany -> Adolf Hitler

For some reason, Kraftwerk's article linked to Düsseldorf but not to Germany.

 

[Onder]

Infoporn: Edit wars on wikipedia. Interesting shit:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[sevag00]

That was really interesting.

 

[Chimaera]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande

 

[The Ozzman]

Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants --> First World War --> Adolf Hitler

I win

 

[Krow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara

The Forest of Death.

 

[Pessimism]

Really talented people play "Six Degree's of Kevin Hitler/Adolf Bacon".
You start at one icon, and have to get to the other icon's page in exactly six moves.

Kevin Bacon -> Telling Lies in America -> Hungary -> Red Army-> Wehrmacht -> Adolf Hitler

 

[The Ozzman]

That is brilliant

 

[The Ozzman]

Six moves from Kevin Bacon to Hitler (meaning starting at Kevin Bacon doesn't constitute a move)

Kevin Bacon --> The Guardian --> Spanish Civil War --> Spanish Civil War Chronology: 1938-1939 --> Soviet Union --> Battle of Stalingrad --> Adolf Hitler

 

[Valerie]

Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants --> First World War --> Adolf Hitler

I win

You tied me, brodolf.

Do I get points for getting from Kevin Bacon to Hitler in less than six moves?

Kevin Bacon
Kyra Sedgwick
Jews
Adolf Hitler

 

[The Ozzman]

Except the only reference to Jews there is 'American Jews' which doesn't lead to Hitler.

You lose.