Wikipedia safari

[The Monkey]

I saw this on another website, thought it was fun.

You go to Wikipedia, decide which article you want to reach, then click on "Random article", and try to get to your desired article with as few clicks as possible. Then post the sequence here.

Example:

Goal: Madagascar

Demographics of Minnesota
United States Census Bureau
United States
African slave trade
Madagascar

 

[Qonfused]

Friends and I call this Wiki Wars. It's all we did the last week of high school.

 

[Vegeta897]

Goal: Aphex Twin

Cap LeMoine, Nova Scotia
Canada
British people
Music of the United Kingdom
British popular music
Techno
Intelligent dance music
Aphex Twin


Not bad if I do say so myself.

 

[Raziaar]

Hey guys. I'll try to get to Hitler's article! It'll be incredibly difficult!

Anyway... I'm gonna do Soup!


Goal: Soup

Tychero
Soufli
Legumes
Peas
Soup


Gonna do one I think will be difficult.

Goal: Dish Network

Al-Karmah
Marine
United States
Television in the United States
Dish Network



**** YEAH!

 

[Escaep]

Goal: Osama Bin Laden

Path:

History of invertebrate paleozoology
Antarctica
Continent
Asia
Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden

 

[delusional]

Goal: Half-Life 2

Drimnagh Castle
Ella Enchanted
2004 films
50 First Dates
Columbia Pictures
Film
Film Genre
List of science fiction films
Science Fiction
Category:Science fiction video games
Category:Half-Life
Half-Life 2

God damn that was hard.

 

[SimpleAssassin]

Goal: The Cure

WSTR
How Many
2002 singles
all my life(foo fighters song)
Killing Joke
Post-Punk
The Cure

 

[Raziaar]

**** man...

I chose to do Aerosol.

And this is my random ****ing page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlach_II_of_Isenburg-Covern

Jesus Christ.

Goal: Aerosol

Gerlach II of Isenburg-Covern
Gerlach III of Isenburg-Covern
Henry of Isenburg-Covern (ARGH MOTHER ****ER! WHO THE **** ARE THESE ASSHOLES AND WHY ARE THEIR ARTICLES SHIT!?)
Category:1263 deaths (We can use categories, right?)
Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford
Peerage of England
Peerage of Scotland(Yeah, who would have thought a link that said Scotland would lead me to ****ing Peerage of Scotland. God dammit)
Kingdom of Great Britain
London
Great Smog of 1952
Air pollution
Aerosol spray
Particulate(I clicked "aerosol" link mother****er)
Aerosol

 

[Shakermaker]

Goal:
Bukkake

Path:
Nuba fighting
Wrestling
Puroresu
Japan
Culture of Japan
Pink Film

And that is where I got stuck. I needed a link to Japanese pornography to reach bukkake but apparently there is a large divide between those pink films and proper porn. Fun game though!

 

[Vorac1ous]

Goal: Pizza

Merzligen, Switzerland
Switzerland
Western Europe
Italy
Pizza

 

[Sainku]

Goal: Kim jong il

Kabloonak
1994 films
Forrest Gump
Vietnam War
Korean War
North Korea
Kim Jong-il

 

[The Monkey]

Goal: Shoegazing

Marsabit
Kenya
Music of Kenya
Rock and roll
Alternative rock
Shoegazing

 

[Dodo]

Goal: Porn

Lego Rock Band (LOL!)
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Mortal Kombat
Video game controversy
Fellatio
Pornography

Haha : D That was fun
again again!

-dodo

 

[SimpleAssassin]

Goal: Bolton

Newbiggin
North Yorkshire
England
Regions of England
North West England
Bolton

 

[The Monkey]

Goal: Maureen Tucker

Harriette Chick
Order of the British Empire
United Kingdom
David Bowie
The Velvet Underground
Maureen Tucker

 

[Sulkdodds]

**** man...

I chose to do Aerosol.

And this is my random ****ing page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerlach_II_of_Isenburg-Covern

Jesus Christ.

How about this?

House of Isenburg
Isenburg
Germany
Global warming
AEROSOL

 

[PvtRyan]

Fancy implementation of this game here:

http://www.wikipediagame.org/

 

[Raziaar]

How about this?

House of Isenburg
Isenburg
Germany
Global warming
AEROSOL

Yeah... well, I didn't go back at all. I only went forward.

Made the wrong initial choices

 

[Sulkdodds]

I only thought backward.

 

[Raziaar]

You smug bastard.

 

[kineaesth]

I remember spending hours in computer labs at school doing this OH THE NOSTALGIA

LET US JOURNEY TO MY FAVOURITE BAND

Clitheroe by-election, 1979
Conservative Party (UK)
Ronald Reagan
Illinois
United States
Music of the United States
Hip hop music
Cypress Hill

HURRAH

 

[AtomicSpark]

When people say safari, I always think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmWNYpQDyy0

 

[Sledgehammer]

Goal: Herpes Simplex

Random article: Larians-et-Munans
France
Disease
Infectious Disease
Sexually Transmitted Disease
Genital Herpes
Herpes Simplex

Goal: Book of Revelation

Random article: Michael Eizenga
Liberal Party of Canada
Canada
Christianity
New Testament
Book of Revelation

Goal: Art Deco

Random Article: Giuliano Paratico
Chitarrone
German Language
United States
New York City
Art Deco

That last one was pretty difficult.

 

[Sheepo]

GOAL: Orson Scott Card

Fairbank, Arizona
U.S. State
North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Orson Scott Card

This is fun.

 

[VirusType2]

Goal: Osama Bin Laden

Path:

History of invertebrate paleozoology
Antarctica
Continent
Asia
Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden

You found Osama Bin Laden! The tools were right at our fingertips all along!

 

[Raziaar]

Makes sense why Bush never found him then. Put his focus on Iraq and not Afghanistan when it was most critical.

 

[Shakermaker]

Makes sense why Bush never found him then. Put his focus on Iraq and not Wikipedia when it was most critical.

Corrected.

 

[Raziaar]

Oh, you ruined it!

 

[The Monkey]

Fancy implementation of this game here:

http://www.wikipediagame.org/

Hey, that's neat.

Makes sense why Bush never found him then. Put his focus on Iraq and not the history of invertebrate paleozoology when it was most critical.

Corrected.

 

[mocho loco]

Goal: Adolf Hitler

Hajnówka
Poland
World War II
Adolf Hitler

That was quick.

 

[Vegeta897]

Goal: Nintendo DS

Emergency communications center
Mobile phone
Wi-Fi
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Nintendo DS

Got lucky with the first article linking to mobile phone.

 

[Raziaar]

Me and vegeta are doing this in competition. It's quite fun!

Man... the first one was 'spork'... and we both started from the same article to see who could do it in the fewest moves...

mine was totally embarrassing.

Goal: spork

Michael Moore (saxophonist and clarinetist)
United States
Cuisine of the United States
Baked beans
Pork and beans
United States Army
United States Military Academy
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Texas
Culture of Texas
Reliant Park
Houston
Petrochemical
Polypropylene
Polystyrene
Plastic
Polystyrene
Cutlery
Spork

 

[Stigmata]

I was imagining some sort of Ventrilo- or Skype-powered virtual safari where one person, acting as the Safari Leader, directs his tourists to the Wikipedia page for each animal, one at a time, whereupon several discussions about the animal erupt, furthering everyone's zoological knowledge and understanding.

I was disappointed.

 

[Raziaar]

I was imagining some sort of Ventrilo- or Skype-powered virtual safari where one person, acting as the Safari Leader, directs his tourists to the Wikipedia page for each animal, one at a time, whereupon several discussions about the animal erupt, furthering everyone's zoological knowledge and understanding.

I was disappointed.

I go on my own personal safari's all the time then.

It's scary when charged by elephants.

 

[Stigmata]

I go on my own personal safari's all the time then.

It's scary when charged by elephants.

Usually I'd be scared by them too, but since I'm stealing Wifi the bandwidth slows them down, and you have all the time in the world to close the window.

 

[Jintor]

Isn't this just WikiRacing or Six Degrees of Wiki? Everything ends up being routed by countries, anyway.

 

[arch5]

When people say safari, I always think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmWNYpQDyy0

I think of

 

[MorganFreeman911]

You whore. Get a windows.

 

[Moto]

Goal: Minus The Bear

Mazomanie (town), Wisconsin
United States
Washington
Seattle
King County, Washington
Snohomish County, Washington
Mukilteo, Washington
Mukilteo School District
Kamiak High School
The Fall of Troy
Minus the Bear

Fun game!

 

[arch5]

You whore. Get a windows.

I have windows, if I didn't, how the hell would I have steam? -.-