[OWW-Discuss] Six Degrees of Wikipedia

[Ilya Sytchev]

"The shortest path between two Wikipedia articles is defined as the 
minimum number of clicks required to move from one article to another. 
This can be used to discover connections between topics that are 
completely unrelated.
...
Six Degrees of Wikipedia is an online tool that will help you find the 
shortest route between any two pages on Wikipedia using links."

http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/determine-the-shortest-path-between-two-wikipedia-articles/3487/

"Stephen Dolan, the researcher who created the software, has also used 
the code to determine which Wikipedia article is the “center” of 
Wikipedia—that is, which article is the hub that most other articles 
must go through in the “Six Degrees” game. Not including the articles 
that are just lists (e.g., years), the article closest to the center is 
“United Kingdom,” at an average of 3.67 clicks to any other article."

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3041/six-degrees-of-wikipedia

Unfortunately, there's no link to download the code to run on the dump 
of OWW.