How One Small Change Broke Wikipedia’s First Link Rule
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What happens when you follow the first link on wikipedia pages to its end? I tried to find out and regretted the resulting headache.
I had to cut out a lot of details due to time/pacing but if there is something that interested you in terms of how I gathered data or whatever, feel free to ask.
Chapters:
0:00 Trying to get a wikipedia page
1:45 Getting the data/ Rules
3:50 Do all wiki pages lead to philosophy?
7:58 The big loop/ What’s special about philosophy?
11:46 Results
12:32 Someone broke the philosophy game
16:47 The second link network
Non-public domain Image credits:
14:35 and 14:54 By Sorens (talk) / Julia Sorenson - :, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Music (in order):
Not David Spotify playlist featuring artists below and others:
Killer Vacation - Chris Doerksen
Fate - Seimuc
Native - HOME
Noche De Lujo - and Vaporwavez
Above All - HOME
(see link above)
Intermission - and Vaporwavez
Sure Thing - Chris Doerksen
(see link above)
Broken Drum Machine - Godmode (YouTube audio library)
Sunrise in Paris - Dan Henig (YouTube audio library)
Forward - Seimuc
(see link above)
RPG Store - Chris Doerksen
(see link above)