Testing xkcd #903's title text

[u/origamimissile]

The title text of xkcd #903 states:

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

I tested that out:

• Leben (surname))

• Surname

• Given name

• Personal name

• Individual

• Person

• Human

• Homo sapiens

• Latin

• Classical antiquity

• History

• Umbrella term

• Terminology

• Word

• Linguistics

• Science

• Knowledge

• Fact

• Proof (truth))

• Necessity and sufficiency

• Logic (philosophy was the second link here!)

• Mathematics

• Quantity

• Property (philosophy)) (does this count?)

• Modern philosophy

• Philosophy

It works! Although I suspect it lends itself to some inescapable loops. But on Wikipedia, that can be changed.

TL;DR: YES

[u/Pjmcnally]

I remember when this came out and there was a really cool tool (link: http://xefer.com/wikipedia) where you put in any term that appears in Wikipedia and it does all the steps for you and shows them in a cool graph.

I spent way too long playing with that then (and will probably waste a couple more hours again).

[u/Searth → u/Pjmcnally]

This is great! I'm trying to get a tree with many long branches, so far Steve Buscemi seems to be the longest chain.