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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by raz32dust on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:56PM (#16469732)
Really cool! May be a bug: I tried Martin Luther Ling -> Elon Musk and it showed me a link from MLK -> Mark Zuckerberg -> Musk. But I couldn't find a Zuckerberg link from the MLK page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Martin%20Luthe...
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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by larkeith on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:00PM (#16469764)
It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by rshannon3 on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:02PM (#16469775)
I get a similar case with Donald Trump - Banjo Kazooie https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Donald%20Trump...
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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by mostly_harmless on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:34PM (#16469956)
It looks like it uses links in the 'category' box at the bottom of the page. Both MLK and Zuckerberg appear in the 'Times Person of the Year' category.
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