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246points
61comments
#200of 3,109 in 2023
Top 7%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

12 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.

Execution: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun for discovering unexpected connections between articles

    From 4 comments
    • This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
      r3trohack3r on HN
    • This is pretty neat! I tried https://www.wikibinge.com/#Moray_eel/Sony_Alpha and I was pleased with the path it took me for first big chunk of the path. The last bit was a tour…
      Kerrick on HN
    • This is excellent. The path from "George Barnes (Musician)" to "Django Reinhardt" somehow managed to pass through Hysterectomy, 5-Bromouracil, Glucuronidation and Port Bannatyne…
      adrianh on HN
    • it's nice that it highlights less popular and obvious - i've discovered a lot linking potato to the Millenium Falcon :) https://www.wikibinge.com/#Potato/Millennium_Falcon
      ArekDymalski on HN

Objections

  • Paths are too long and loose to feel meaningful

    From 3 comments
    • The chains are so long, it's really not that impressive :/
      munro on HN
    • Unimpressed - I tried to get a chain from "Mocca, Yemen" to "Jimma". I got a whole long list of stuff about aircraft engines (I do get that the author was trying to make…
      denton-scratch on HN
    • Asked to connect two small town on different continent. One of those town manufacture car parts. Then I got 10ish car model from various brand. An actor that did a commercial for…
      dopidopHN on HN
  • Search fails for non-canonical names, parentheses, uppercase and commas

    From 4 comments
    • My first attempt I can't search donut (Doughnut is the canonical), can't type the "()" parenthesis that appear in page names, and can't use any of France, La France, or French…
      mcint on HN
    • Pretty cool project! FYI for some reason search doesn't seem to work that well. hackNY won't come up and if you try try to add a place with a comma (Lowell, Massachusetts) you…
      raybb on HN
    • I couldn't get NODAPL either. Seems to have trouble with uppercased letters?
      culi on HN
    • Not "all things." I can't enter arbitrary titles of wiki articles, like "mathematics" and "poetry."
      Paul-Craft on HN

Requests

  • Show the shortest path alongside the long path

    From 3 comments
    • This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
      r3trohack3r on HN
    • > Since it seems like you are computing both the shortest and the "most interesting" path between the two articles, it would be cool to give me a way to see both on the final…
      saltminer on HN
    • This is pretty neat! I tried https://www.wikibinge.com/#Moray_eel/Sony_Alpha and I was pleased with the path it took me for first big chunk of the path. The last bit was a tour…
      Kerrick on HN
  • Customizable weighting or category exclusions

    From 2 comments
    • I'd love to be able to customize the algorithm. I'm curious what would happen if you placed various weights to optimize for shortest path AND most niche path (or however you'd…
      culi on HN
    • Would be great to be able to customize the randomness on the graph. Granted it's a hard problem to solve. I picked two unrelated topics and it seems like most of the bridge is…
      anonu on HN

Questions

  • Is there a tool that finds the shortest path?

    From 1 comment
    • This might be the first time I wish I’d read the comments before visiting the link. Assuming it would find the shortest path, I gave it two very unrelated concepts. I spent way…
      tobyjsullivan on HN

Alternatives named

  • Six Degrees of Wikipedia

    From 2 comments
    • > is there a similar tool that does shortest path? Yes very many of them, like OP said. Here’s a popular one: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
      codetrotter on HN
    • If you want the shortest path just use one of the very many websites that does that. For example https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
      codetrotter on HN
  • The Wiki Game / wiki-race

    From 2 comments
  • Wikiscroll

    From 1 comment
    • This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
      r3trohack3r on HN

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