Taking up the gauntlet that KQ has hurled down ;->, I have thrown together a Perl script (undoubtedly hideously inefficient; I am not a native speaker of Perl) that has automated this process -- it repeatedly calls Wikipedia's random page link, grabs the title, drops all dates, turns all punctuation (including subpage slashes) into spaces, googles for the result, and looks for links to "wikipedia." Sample output, with comments added: 269 # date, not googled Truth drug # googled, but not found Aconitine # a hit! <a href=http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Aconitine><b>Aconitine</b>… Famous Canadians 1 E 1 m # probably shouldn't be googled, but currently is Would anyone be interested in seeing this cleaned up and turned into a regular report? --~~~ the Epopt, aka... -- Sean Barrett | Hey! Chuft-Captain! sean(a)epoptic.com | What sthondhat was your mother? -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of koyaanisqatsi(a)nupedia.com Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 09:41 To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits hello, I've started a new page for obsessive editors, wikipediholics, and the frequently bored and diligent. It's an incomplete listing of articles which land in the top 10 google results by searching for title alone (in the case of slashes, parentheses etc. it's nice if they turn up in the top 10 without special punctuation.). Anyway, take a look at it if you're interested: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ATop_10_Google_hits Automation in this regard would be nice, but oh well. And, BTW, I'm not presenting this as a way to shame anyone, by any means--three of the articles written almost exclusively by me are on the list ([[canna lily]], [[Joel and Ethan Coen]], and [[Dziga Vertov]]), and I've already added 2 paragraphs to canna lily. Needless to say, it's moved Dziga up on my priority list also, since I don't cover the last 15 years of his life at all. Best, kq [Wikipedia-l] To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l