Comment Re:Oracle of Slashdot (Score 1) 50
Back up now - I'm the owner, and a bit of mod_wsgi setup optimization got it running again.
Comment Re:All Roades Lead to Philosophy (Score 1) 50
Yeah, there are plenty of counterexamples. Many articles end you up in the following closed loop:
Ancient Greek,
Greek Language,
Indo-European Languages,
Language Family. From "Language Family" there are sort of two possibilities:
1. You go to "List of language families", if you count the italicized disambiguation type text as the first link, in which case you're then sent back to "Language Family" and start looping.
2. You ignore the italicized text and click Language, which leads to Human, Taxonomy, Ancient Greek.
Either way, no philosophy.
Either way, no philosophy.
Comment Source code for site - should I make available? (Score 1) 50
I'm the creator of the site. (I apologize that it was down for so long today - I had to do some tweaking to handle the Slashdot effect. Hopefully we're out of the woods now, but we'll see.) Would people be interested in the source code? I'd be willing to clean it up and post most or all of it under a permissive license if there's interest.
Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program 50
New submitter BLT2112 writes "Inspired by the Oracle of Bacon, the Oracle of Wikipedia finds the shortest path between two Wikipedia articles, as in Wikipedia Golf. As explained in the site, 'One selects one article as the tee and another article as the hole and then completes the course between them clicking as few links as possible. No typing is allowed. . . . The Oracle also allows you to search for the most challenging potential Wikipedia Golf courses. Can you find a longer course and merit a place in the "records" section?'"
