Monday, 13 June 2011

The UK is the center of Wikipedia.

Ever look up an article on Wikipedia and after clicking on different links find yourself looking at something completely different? If you started researching the United Kingdom, in a few clicks you could be anywhere.

On average it takes only 3.67 clicks to get from the article about the United Kingdom to any of the other 2,111,479 articles on Wikipedia. Strangely, the first runner-up for the title of "Center of Wikipedia" is former tennis pro Billie Jean King (3.68) followed closely by the United States (3.69).

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I hope he reads this, I've got over 400 referrals from his blog! Cheers buddy.
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27 comments:

  1. Douglas13 June 2011 at 02:01

    Is that so? I gotta try this!

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  2. BTN Hip Hop13 June 2011 at 02:31

    haha the tennis person lol

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  3. Intraman13 June 2011 at 03:04

    that's amazing, it's like the 6 degree of separation thing applied to wikipedia :p

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  4. ruinz13 June 2011 at 03:20

    the internet is freaky
    How to Hack Life.

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  5. The Angry Lurker13 June 2011 at 03:23

    Good facts, thanks for the shout out, keep it coming.

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  6. Jack of Diamonds13 June 2011 at 04:18

    Weldone the angry lurker, its nice to see when people are helping each other out!

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  7. mindlessfrk13 June 2011 at 05:03

    Well, it's normal, one of the oldest countries on Europe that still exist and is still big and influent:D

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  8. Triper13 June 2011 at 05:27

    cool!

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  9. t3013 June 2011 at 06:02

    that was a cool read. i loved the "shortest path" thing. it was crazy how quickly you could get between two unrelated things (such as two clicks from Ted Bundy to Syria)

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  10. JayPower13 June 2011 at 06:25

    Thats so cool ;D gonna test this theory! ;D

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  11. Xenototh13 June 2011 at 06:51

    Those damn Brits, they have taken over everything! :D

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  12. Michael13 June 2011 at 06:52

    I think it means that the UK is the most knowledgeable part of the world. Followed due to interest.

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  13. Kopite13 June 2011 at 06:53

    Wow, i'm gonna try this later. Is this a bug?

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  14. Stuck In Syndey13 June 2011 at 07:02

    What does this say about the average iq of the uk?

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  15. Anonymous13 June 2011 at 07:42

    Sounds pretty good, but with such a rich history, it's hardly surprising that the UK is so closely related to so many other entries on wiki.

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  16. Moobeat13 June 2011 at 07:54

    awesome stuff

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  17. A13 June 2011 at 08:18

    That's fascinating. You can also click the first word in each article (starting from any wikipedia article) that isn't the title of the article, isn';t in bold or italics, and isn't in parentheses, and you'll eventually end up on the article for philosophy.

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  18. Dan Elliot Treto13 June 2011 at 08:45

    I know one of my favorite people on youtube set up a challenge of the fewest clicks of connection them with the most hated famous person (I think someone got hitler and her in like three clicks), but haha browsing by random clicks is a fun thing to do.

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  19. RageCompeX13 June 2011 at 11:06

    wikipedia is hard to understand sometimes...

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  20. Funny Picture of the Day13 June 2011 at 11:13

    That's pretty crazy.

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  21. Pockets13 June 2011 at 13:05

    Billie Jean King... that's incredibly out of place. I need to experiment.

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  22. VersionDouble13 June 2011 at 13:35

    at college we used to play a game - click random article and see how many clicks it takes you on the pages that show up to get to Adolf Hitler.

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  23. ed13 June 2011 at 19:09

    US > UK

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  24. Mike13 June 2011 at 20:37

    Wow that's interesting.

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  25. Unknown14 June 2011 at 08:25

    I had no idea I'll have to try this.

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  26. HiFi14 June 2011 at 08:52

    Haha. that's awesome

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  27. Anonymous14 June 2011 at 19:47

    Less than 6 degrees of separation...

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