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Life & fun · August 31, 2012

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Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

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Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop launched on August 31, 2012 with 295 votes, #4 of 411 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Wikiloopr helps users identify and explore circular reference patterns in Wikipedia articles. The tool reveals how different Wikipedia pages interconnect and eventually loop back to the same articles, making visible the sometimes repetitive structure of Wikipedia's link networks. It is designed for people curious about how Wikipedia's information architecture works and interested in discovering these cyclical patterns while browsing.

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