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SllX
SllX
Damn. So I just lost one.
I needed to go from 700 to “Australasian Virtual Herbarium”.
Getting from 700 to South Australia or Adelaide is no big deal. The problem is trying to find a single Wikipedia page that actually links to the Wikipedia page for the Australasian Virtual Herbarium rather than to their website (or just referencing it without any link text).
I suppose I could go in somewhere and add it myself, but that would be cheating. So after 670 seconds, I’m throwing in the towel on this one. If anybody finds a way, let me know, but I may take a crack at this one again later this evening.
schoen
I used "What Links Here" to find this (just to confirm that it can be done, not that I could find it myself). ROT13:
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenyvn
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Pnaoreen
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenyvna_Angvbany_Obgnavp_Tneqraf
uggcf://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Nhfgenynfvna_Iveghny_Ureonevhz
I would probably not have been able to find this without using the reverse link feature.
SllX
So it is possible, just very very challenging. I haven’t plugged it into a translator and it’s been a while since I deciphered ROT13 by hand, but looking at that first one I’m guessing that’s Australia itself just based on the pattern?
Country pages tend to have a lot of links to a lot of different topics. So if it’s on that page, that’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and it may not even be obviously labeled to begin with since link text can be anything on a MediaWiki.
If anyone wants to make a go at this and post their time and link count here, I may have some free time this weekend to try and challenge it. None this evening I’m afraid.
slaymaker1907
I got a slightly shorter path through William Astbury
Chromosome,DNA,William Astbury,London,United Kingdom,BBC,BBC One
goalieca
Oouf. This game is fun for trivia
"Voiceless bilabial plosive" to "Rotten Tomatoes"
Time: 98.637 Seconds Voiceless bilabial plosive,English language,African-American Vernacular English,Tupac Shakur,Nothing but Trouble (1991 film),Rotten Tomatoes
perch56
"Computer network" to "Niger" Time: 257.660 Seconds
Number of links visited: 3
The path you took: [ "Computer network", "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", "Time zone", "Niger" ]
that_guy_iain
Looking at the result for others, mines doesn't look so good.
"Australian Recording Industry Association" to "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina" Time: 285.376 Seconds
Number of links visited: 16
The path you took: [ "Australian Recording Industry Association", "Australia", "Oceania", "Region", "List of regions of the United States", "Grand Strand", "South Carolina", "Fort Sumter", "Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park", "National Historic Site (United States)", "National Register of Historic Places", "List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state", "List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina", "St. James Episcopal Church (Santee, South Carolina)", "National Register of Historic Places", "United States National Register of Historic Places listings", "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina" ]
abejfehr
Reminds me of the Wiki Game: https://www.thewikigame.com/
Chilko
I was surprised to see this so low, the Wiki Game is a great version of this as you compete directly against others.
jaqalopes
This is fun, we used to do something like this in high school called Five Clicks to Jesus, which is exactly what it sounds like.
I find this particular version a bit tedious because you aren't allowed to Find on a page. What good is having a timer if I can't go fast? Why punish me twice for reaching a dead end page by making me read the entire thing to discover that I need to go back?
slaymaker1907
I think it's an interesting restriction. The one thing I object to is not having sources and especially "See also". Most of the time I can get things within 10 clicks even with the restrictions.
dmix
This was a fun one:
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"Domain name" to "Creative Commons license" Time: 90.194 Seconds
Number of links visited: 8
The path you took: [ "Domain name", "Website", "Adobe Flash Player", "Browser game", "Free-to-play", "Freemium", "Open source", "Creative Commons", "Creative Commons license" ]
https://wikispeedruns.com/quick_run/finish?run_id=72581&play...
dmix
"New Delhi" to "Marseille"
Time: 64.282 Seconds
Number of links visited: 6
The path you took: [ "New Delhi", "Capital city", "Cantons of Switzerland", "French language", "Northern France", "France", "Marseille" ]
https://wikispeedruns.com/quick_run/finish?run_id=73745&play...
Emma_Goldman
Very cool. My first go was similar:
"West Virginia" to "Austria-Hungary"
Time: 50.962 Seconds
Number of links visited: 8
The path you took: ["West Virginia", "United States", "North America", "Continent", "Eurasia", "Europe", "World war", "World War I", "Austria-Hungary" ]
agluszak
So apparently it tracks pressing "CTRL+F", but it you select "find in page" from the menu in your browser that's fine. I guess there's no way for a website to track that anyway.
rco8786
I kind of like that as an accidental element of the game. It takes real time to click the menu twice to pull up the box and then still type the phrase, etc. Reasonable chance you can find it faster by scrolling and scanning. Gotta choose.
wingerlang
Assuming the finds trigger the scroll updates, one might be able to infer certain large jumps (possibly looping as one often does) to be a search in the page.
Breadmaker
:-)
"Ditransitive verb" to "Paul the Apostle"
Time: 133.395 Seconds
Number of links visited: 10
The path you took: [ "Ditransitive verb", "Grammar", "Linguistics", "Science", "Fall of the Western Roman Empire", "Edict of Milan", "Edict of Thessalonica", "Arianism", "Jesus", "Pauline epistles", "Paul the Apostle" ]
Breadmaker
This is the next olympic sport.
"National Collegiate Athletic Association" to "Myanmar"
Time: 63.695 Seconds
Number of links visited: 6
The path you took: [ "National Collegiate Athletic Association", "Student athlete", "Amateur", "Olympic Games", "International Olympic Committee", "Thailand", "Myanmar" ]
pxeger1
I find it much more interesting to play by fewest links clicked. Having a timer running is too much pressure.
totoglazer
Agreed - feels like fewest links requires more thought and less manic clicking.
Harvy
Have you tried... Marathon mode? Conserve your clicks but take your time
wolframhempel
Haha, loving it. "Gastropoda" to "Basque language" Time: 111.094 Seconds
Number of links visited: 5 [ "Gastropoda", "Taxonomy (biology)", "Ancient Greek", "Language family", "Language isolate", "Basque language" ]
wolframhempel
Also, I challenge everyone to break this record: "History of Christianity" to "University of Cambridge" Number of links visited: 2 [ "History of Christianity", "University of Oxford", "University of Cambridge" ]
driscoll42
There was a good article from six degrees of wikipedia (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-an...) which would show the ideal path and be cheating, but fun to compare optimal vs what was found.
sedatk
Also, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
zichy
I know some friends who would prefer to play this in their native language, so I can't wait for the i18n: https://github.com/wikispeedruns/wikipedia-speedruns/issues/...
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"Chromosome" to "BBC One" Time: 78.910 Seconds
Number of links visited: 10
The path you took: [ "Chromosome", "DNA", "Life", "Animal", "Systema Naturae", "Carl Linnaeus", "Chelsea Physic Garden", "Chelsea, London", "United Kingdom", "BBC", "BBC One" ]
This is pretty sick.