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After spending way too much time I got 9 degrees of separation. I did piggyback off of someone else's work with "Phinney". https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express...

I found a ton of 5 degree paths and only a couple of 6 degree ones. Then I pulled out the "big guns" (the dead-end pages category). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dead-end_pages_from_F...



That's impressive.

Wikipedia is highly connected. Even pretty darn different things often seem to have only three degrees of separation. For example, here's Ramesses II to Ankylosaurus in three:

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramesses%20II&...

After trying a bunch of things, I finally found a fourth-degree separation: William the Conqueror to Ankylosaurus.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=William%20the%...


I don't know if this is legit. The Lion Express node only connects to a couple of Wikipedia's generic help pages, which I'm pretty sure don't link back to Lion Express.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching


Here's one with 7 hops and not using The Lion Express. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Zevenhoven&tar...

Like I said I spent too much time on this yesterday.


Damn, I had trouble finding more than 3 degrees


yeah I just cheated by using orphaned articles and managed to 'win'




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