Comments on: Gucwa’s Law of Wikipedia

By: Dav

Dav — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:44:19 +0000

As it turns out, that utility doesn’t find an optimal route. Just by looking at the article on Nanoparticles, I can see that it links to United States, which goes right to World War II. 2 hops. Sorry, Mark. =(

By: Duke

Duke — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:09:01 +0000

Using the utility linked by Michael Terry… I have disproven Gucwa’s Law of Wikipedia… There are 7 degrees of seperation between “Nanoparticles” and “World War II” Bwahaha.. This only took 3 attempts thru the Six Degrees utility on my part. Theory disproven.. Until someone writes a new article about Nazi Astrophysicists… lol..

By: Michael Terry

Michael Terry — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:26:50 +0000

Look at this: Six Degrees of Wikipedia.

By: Dav

Dav — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:43:09 +0000

You can make it from 194 (number) to World War II in just two hops (via Roman Numeral). This works presumably for any other number as well. World War II just shows up everywhere. It's crazy.

By: Michael Terry

Michael Terry — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:38:48 +0000

Hah. Awesome. I tried it out and it seems true. Mostly because almost any country or date will get you there pretty quick. I guess we need some article not connected with time or space even the slightest.

Although, I suspect that if I try to disprove it, five minutes later, some modification from anon-162.unh.edu will add the line “The Nazis were researching donkey punching as far back as 1942.” Tricky Gucwa.

By: Kayci

Kayci — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:29:26 +0000

Dammit.

By: Dav

Dav — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:03:50 +0000

I did this one in 3.

Donkey Punching -> California -> United States -> World War 2

By: Kayci

Kayci — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:08:41 +0000

I realize that a) I haven’t really tried this out/am not that familiar with Wikipedia’s workings and b) we look up *very* different thinks on Wikipedia, but I’m assuming that it would be very hard for some of the things I search for to be that closely linked to an article on World War II, if possible at all. I’m sure a thorough gentleman like yourself would have already tried to link more obscure articles, likes ones about donkey punching, and you must have succeeded, so maybe you’re right, which is one of the reasons I’m not going to bother testing this out.

Because of the above, laziness, and busyness (but mostly laziness), I’m waiting for someone more involved (well, Mike) to disprove this, because I believe it can be done.