[Wikipedia-l] Re: Showing causation among articles

Wed Jul 14 03:14:12 UTC 2004

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

>What *would* be cool, and might just be a different implementation of
>exactly what you have in mind, would be a tool to find all the
>(reasonably short) click-paths between any two concepts.  I mean, now
>that I selected the article titles randomly, I actually wonder how
>many clicks it takes to get from Marie Antionette to Michael Jordan.
>And what's intervening?
>
>Basically, this doesn't need a special type of "influence map", but
>rather just an analysis of existing links.
>
Check out [[Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia]]. It's just for fun, and 
we'd have to create a specific search function to do it automatically, 
but that's basically what you're talking about.

--Michael Snow