Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

have been doing this for a half hour

The sound of one hand clicking.

I guess you could call it... a maxim

ugh xkcd

aghhh i did not know this came from xkcd!!!!!! CODE TEN ABORT

(if I was still a mod I would have locked the thread right here)

Could be worse, could be Achewood...

I ended up at Ancient Greek/Indo-European.

I started with "Jeans" and it took me about 10 clicks

Indo-European > family > language > human > taxonomically > science > knowledge > fact > information > finite > mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy.

(xp)

lol, success from starting out at a finnish power metal single chosen with the random article button.

26 steps from Blumfeld (a German indie-pop band).

Indo-European > family > language > human > taxonomically > science > knowledge > fact > information > finite > mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy.

― jaymc, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

ah ok sry. just woke up

18 from Danny Masterton (Scottish football player).

Though mine have both run through science, so it may be just as feasible to say you'll always end up at science. Possibly.

20 clicks from mine, and I went through Science and Maths first, so not really impressed.

I started at Jasmine Becket-Griffith and click 10 was Modern Philosophy, fancy

Laura Ritchie > cellist > bowed > music > art > symbol > numerals > writing system > symbolic system > psychology > science > knowledge > fact > information > finite set > mathematics > quantity > property (philosophy) > modern philosophy > philosophy

Thought I'd get into a loop around information/maths.

found a loop: Soviet Union > Constitution of the Soviet Union > Soviet Union

THEOREM DISPROVED

*hangs head in shame*

commies

mine always go through science first too.

twice they've gone through "noun"!

New Queer Cinema > B. Ruby Rich > United States > federalism > politics > group decision making > individual > person > human > taxonomically > science > knowledge > fact > information > finite > mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy.

Ned Raggett -> Bremerton -> Kitsap County -> county -> US State -> federated state -> constitution -> state (polity) -> social sciences -> scholarly method -> principle -> law -> system -> elements -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy -> philosophy

I just got stuck in a loop of ->Coat of Arms->heraldry->Coat of Arms. but that was after a billion attempts that ended in philosophy, so this xkcd chap is onto something.

xp I think you're using parentheticals there.

I Love Music -> popular music -> music genre -> genre -> literature -> narrative -> Proto-Indo-European language -> Linguistic reconstruction -> Internal reconstruction -> Comparative method -> Linguistics -> Linguistics -> human -> taxonomy -> science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Finite set -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Mathematics

I think someone just changed it to loop after mathematics.

I Love Music > popular music > musical genre > genres > literature > fiction > narrative > Latin > Italic language > Indo-European languages > Language family > Linguistics > Human > Taxonomy > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Information > Finite set > Mathematics > Quantity > Property (philosophy) > back to Mathematics

aarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!

xxp oh

Ned Raggett -> library technician -> Paraprofessional -> License -> Intellectual property -> Exclusive right -> Anglo-Saxon law -> Anglo-Saxons -> Germanic peoples -> Ethnolinguistics -> Linguistics etc

I just vandalized the xkcd creator's wiki so it gets stuck in an endless loop when you try this trick. but I doubt it'll last; it's kinda obvious:

Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984)[1], best known as the creator of the heraldic webcomic xkcd, is an American webcomic author and former NASA roboticist[2] as well as a programmer,[3].

(heraldic is the first link)

I like the way you think, abanana.

But what if you start at "Philosophy" ?

philosophy -> rational argument -> faculty -> physiology -> organ -> biology -> natural science -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy -> philosophy

surprisingly long loop though

do the same trick with Conservapedia, and I bet every page will eventually bring you back to Arguments Against Homosexuality or maybe just Ronald Reagan.

Arguments Against Homosexuality -> Homosexuality and health -> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -> Influenza -> Virus -> Cell -> Phillip E. Johnson -> University of California, Berkeley -> Berkeley -> California -> United States of America -> North America -> Canada -> Nation state -> Nation -> State -> Nation state (loops)

Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Mathematics

I think someone just changed it to loop after mathematics.

― nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:38 PM (2 hours ago)

I Love Music > popular music > musical genre > genres > literature > fiction > narrative > Latin > Italic language > Indo-European languages > Language family > Linguistics > Human > Taxonomy > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Information > Finite set > Mathematics > Quantity > Property (philosophy) > back to Mathematics

― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

weird. every time i've done this, it's gone: mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy. still does, afaict.

Lol, the page is locked now - look at the edit history! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quantity&action=history

xkcd related edit war

lol

Ha, someone changed xkcd creator's wiki so that all the links in the first paragraph lead directly to Philosophy. Good job whoever that was.

philosophy -> rational argument -> faculty -> physiology -> organ -> biology -> natural science -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy -> philosophy

it actually goes philosophy -> existence -> sense -> organism -> biology -> natural science -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy -> philosophy which is one shorter!

philosophy > sex > pizza

Dunno who KJ Gerard is but I was having a ball here till I got into a loop

K. J. Gerard, Orange County, California, County (United States), U.S. state, Federated state, Constitution, State (polity), Social sciences, Scholarly method, Principle, Law, System, Latin, Italic languages, Indo-European languages, Language family, Language, Human, Taxonomy, Ancient Greek, Greek language, Greeks, Nation, Sovereign state, State (polity)...

Most of my attempts yesterday went through "Language" and/or "Greek language" and ended up at philosophy (though it took another 10-15 steps), so something's changed in the past 18 hours if ledge's goes through both and then loops.

ok lol

(cur | prev) 19:25, 25 May 2011 Just plain Bill (talk | contribs) (53,793 bytes) (Reverted 1 edit by Cj.currie007 (talk); Wikipedia is not here to follow any xkcd "rule.". (TW)) (undo)
(cur | prev) 19:22, 25 May 2011 Cj.currie007 (talk | contribs) m (53,801 bytes) (Reworded the first sentence to maintain xkcd's Wikipedia rule (cliking on Humans should not loop, leading to Taxonomy, Ancient Greek, and back to Language)) (undo)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language&action=history

Did I do all my searches in that three-minute window last night? Eh, it's possible; it was about that time.

And why are all these people editing the first sentence of the "Language" page not removing that bloody comma? C'mon, nerds.

science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy -> philosophy

lol at most these pages all being locked right now

Anastasia Myskina => tennis => sport => organization => social group => social cohesion => social policy => quality of life => international development => aid => international relations => sovereign state => state (polity) => social sciences => scholarly method => principle => law => system => element (mathematics) => mathematics => quantity => property (philosophy) => modern philosophy => PHILOSOPHY

brodie > given name > personal name > proper name > noun > linguistics > human > taxonomically > science > knowledge > facts > information > finite > mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy

"modern philosophy" no longer links to "philosophy" first it seems

Dunno who KJ Gerard is but I was having a ball here till I got into a loop

If you ignore parentheticals/italics as suggested, "taxonomy" links to "science," not "Ancient Greek."

... this was fun while it lasted

Hey guys, did you know that all sports commentary comes from two stick figures sitting at a table? One of them says, "A weighted random number generator just produced a new batch of numbers." The other says, "Let's use them to build narratives."

brodie > given name > personal name > proper name > noun > linguistics > human > taxonomically > science > knowledge > facts > information > finite > mathematics > quantity > property > modern philosophy > philosophy

― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hero

Q-tip - Cotton - Fiber - Material - Matter - Physical Body - Physics - Natural Science - Science - Knowledge - Facts - Information - Sequence - Mathematics - Quantity - Property - Modern Philosophy - Philosophy

When it got to physics so quickly, I figured philosophy was right around the bend.

Water privatization in Chile
Privatization
Business
Organization
Social group
Social cohesion
Social policy
Quality of life
International development
Aid (Redirected from Foreign aid)
International relations
Sovereign state
State (polity)
Social Sciences
List of academic disciplines (Redirected from Field of Study)
Academia
Community
Interaction (Redirected from Interacting)
Causality (Redirected from Causal)
Event (Wiktionary page)

Sorry, for a moment I thought I'd clicked on the "Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry" thread there.