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Life & fun · April 14, 2023

WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected

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…

WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected launched on April 14, 2023 with 246 votes, #96 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

WikiBinge is a tool that finds connections between two Wikipedia articles by deliberately taking longer, more obscure routes instead of the shortest path. Rather than connecting through major, well-known articles, it prioritizes smaller, less-represented pages using a PageRank-based algorithm. The tool is designed for Wikipedia explorers who want to discover unexpected links between topics and enjoy following unconventional paths through the encyclopedia's network of articles.

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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…

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