This is cool. A computer programmer parsed the all the Wikipedia entries to find the average step length to get from any one to any other. He also found the center of Wikipedia -- the article that has the shortest average step length to any other article. The article in question is 2007.
Hat-tip: Slashdot
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My library is hosting a Ada Lovelace Day event tomorrow (ok, a little late...).
The discussion page for the Wikipedia article on the Discovery Institute has a couple of interesting flags up on it:
Publish in Wikipedia or perish:
Early on in its history, I wasn't particularly thrilled with Wikipedia as a project or reference source.
If Bacon were at 6 degrees how many klicks would he be from the coldest place on Earth?!
Sounds a bit like Wikington Crescent, but in reverse, and not as fun.