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Life & fun · May 26, 2020

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Website that finds least amount of clicks between two Wikipedia pages

Website that finds least amount of clicks between two Wikipedia pages launched on May 26, 2020 with 6 votes, #1,336 of 4,813 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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  • WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected2023 · wikibinge.com · ▲246

    Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…

  • Six Degrees of Wikipedia2018 · sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · ▲1,176

    Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.

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    Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop2012 · wikiloopr.com · ▲295

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  • The Wikipedia Game2022 · thewikigamedaily.com · ▲81

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  • Wikispeedia2015 · cs.mcgill.ca · ▲73

    A game for Wikipedia - connect articles in the fewest clicks

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