tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740522629684140967.post-67926560274680055812008-05-28T16:59:00.002-04:002008-05-28T17:02:06.863-04:002008-05-28T17:02:06.863-04:00It's the Kevin Bacon game for <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>. Like searching for the center of the earth, find the center of <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>!<br /><br />Here's the skinny:<br /><blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/">Six Degrees of Wikipedia</a>: "The same idea could apply to the articles Wikipedia. Instead of taking 'in the same film' as the relation, you can take 'is linked to by'. We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the 'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness)."<br /></blockquote>FranciscoIVnoreply@blogger.com0