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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by nly on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:09PM (#16469830)
The downside of bidirectional seems to be that things like place names are linked via short paths through boring articles like "Census designated place" or "City"
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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by jwngr on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:04PM (#16470356)
The bi-directional nature of the search does not change the end result. It is simply a performance improvement.
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Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia by solarkraft on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:08PM (#16475439)
Still - It can be annoying. Maybe there could be an option to exclude articles with specific text/link ratios?
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