Wiki Chain

Brandy turned me on to this fun game. Well, Brandy’s version is a little different, but here are my rules.

Start with by clicking “Random Article” on Wikipedia. Then click the first link in each article (not counting standard navigation and disambiguation links and and such not counting pages you have already gone to) and just see where you travel.

So lets go:

1. Johnathan Stonagal
2. Fictional Character
3. Person
4. Human
5. Bipedalism
6. Terrestrial Locomotion
7. Evolved
8. Biology
9. Greek Language
10. List of Languages by First Written Accounts
11. Writing
12. Media (Arts)
13. Art
14. The Arts
15. Culture
16. Latin
17. Indo-European Languages
18. Language Family
19. Language
20. Symbol

OK, that’s 20, so I’m going to stop. OK, so maybe it wasn’t that much fun. Of course, in Brandy’s version she actually reads each of the pages and learns about whatever the subject matter is, and usually starts from a page she actually had some interest in rather than doing the random thing, but whatever. :-)

I’ve of couse spent many hours flipping between wikipedia pages before and ended on all sorts of tangents, and there is a famous cartoon about that… it is the “first link” thing that makes this different.

Yeah, OK, fine. Maybe the other way is better. :-)