User blog:Purplatypus/All Roads Lead to Dailies

You may have heard about the idea that on Wikipedia, all roads lead to philosophy. Basically, the idea is that you start at any Wikipedia page, and click on the first internal link in the body of the page that isn't in parentheses or italics. If you keep doing this you will almost always eventually end up at the philosophy page. (You can find Wikipedia's description of this phenomenon here.)

So I decided to try following this procedure with our very own wiki to see what patterns might arise! I sampled a total of 20 wiki articles, selected by clicking the "Random Page" button (and ignoring results from The Keep), and in each case I followed this procedure until I found myself in a loop.

I found that 16/20 (80% of the sample) eventually led to Dailies (which then goes into an infinite loop with its companion, Sample Dailies). Of the remaining 4, 3 of my chains ended with To-Dos, which also leads into a loop with its Sample counterpart; the remaining one was the chain that started with Constitution, and quickly turned into a 2-page loop between Character Attributes and Strength.

Just thought someone might enjoy this bit of wiki trivia!