I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found

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A deep dive into the network of Wikipedia and some of the the most interesting, bizarre, and unique articles on the website.
Music:
Beyond the Wall - Sugoi
How About Now? - Andreas Dahlbäck
First Horizon - ELFL
Neroli - Ennio Máno
Tree Tops - Autohacker
Technical details for nerds:
- Data is collected from Wikipedia dumps
- Graph is made with python-igraph
- Distributed Recursive Layout algorithm is used for the graph layout
- Leiden algorithm is used for community detection
- A valid article is any page in Wikipedia's article namespace excluding redirect pages, disambiguation pages, and soft redirects
- A valid link is a link in an articles body. Links that appear in or after the "See Also" section and links that appear as footnotes are not included since these are not really a part of the article's body. Links in and after the "See Also" section of pages are typically not used in Wikipedia races.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Communities
4:07 Popular Articles
7:38 Orphans & Dead Ends
10:23 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
14:56 Longest Path on Wikipedia
17:06 FANTA CAKE
19:20 Outro

[@Gareth1892000]

I love how almost all dead-end articles you mentioned have no longer been dead-end just within a day of this video being uploaded.

[@jacobe.1651]

This video was posted 8 days ago (sent 11 hours after original comment for anybody who's curious in the future)

[@gregoryturk1275]

This comment was made 22 hours after the main comment: The original comment was: I love how almost all dead-end articles you mentioned have no longer been dead-end within a day of this video being uploaded. The second reply to this main comment is: This video was posted 8 days ago (sent 11 hours after original comment for anybody who is curious in the future). My comment: The Great Sun approaches. It grows. It spreads. Faster day by day. One day it shall expand to the point that it has exhausted all of its energy. Then the three inner planets shall be consumed in the fireball and Enceladus shall have liquid water. After mars with its rings shall cry. For three of its friends have died. And the sleeping monster shall fizzle away. And the life on Europa shall freeze and die. You atoms shall be consumed in the fireball. Unless…

[@grapehool7699]

This comment was made 2 hours after ​@@gregoryturk1275 's reply. I just want the exact time of the original comment to be documented for no reason in particular

[@micheal5117]

what?

[@MatheoZ14]

@@micheal5117 yes

[@jacoL8]

Another thing I’d like to point out is how 97% of all Wikipedia articles will end up in philosophy if you kept clicking on the first hyperlink

[@user-qi6pv9jh7o]

Try also Wiktionary, and click on hyperonyms

[@briciolaa]

fun!

[@suspicious_papaya4307]

this was surprisingly true. I tried doing this from the Fanta Cake article and ended up on 'Existence'

[@voorwillen7424]

when i tried it it just kept going in a loop at science Edit: its not only at science but also at other things

[@spiceyicey]

that's probably because 97% of articles start with the name of a language as the first hyperlink

[@JeadyVT]

I like how someone fixed the Fanta Cake article but didn't bother to replace the sad sopping excuse of a fanta cake picture lmao

[@echo5172]

Nobody else can bear to make one

[@BadassCat-nl9yk]

I like how by mentioning this you got them to fix it lol

[@popcorn8153]

@@BadassCat-nl9yk I just checked to see lol. The wiki community is generally pretty swift when it comes to resolving issues that they are made aware of.

[@ravenwraith1017]

@@popcorn8153and now it has almost a dozen references too.

[@TjinDeDjen]

@@BadassCat-nl9yk yeah, they "fixed" it with an ai generated image...

[@andrewduncan2258]

Once when playing the wikipedia game in history class, the target article was "the French Revolution." We all had to start on a random page in order to demonstrate that essentially everything in the world is influenced heavily by the French Revolution. Some lucky duck's random article was "France"💀💀💀💀

[@DAMfoxygrampa]

Oh that just ain't fair 😂😂

[@echoplots8058]

@@DAMfoxygrampa Well, some people just get luckier than others. A lesson from the french revolution.

[@blakksheep736]

​@@echoplots8058 pfffffffffffffft

[@depotheose7890]

who would think that france was impacted by the french revolution

[@pierrotA]

I agree that the world was greatly impacted by the French revolution, but it's a very bad way of showing it, given it work with *any* page... It's a know "paradox", there is (almost) always less that 7link between two things: it's almost 100% certain that you know someone that know someone that know someone that know someone that know Jessica Alba (or anyone else). It's the same for wikipedia. It's mathematically proven that you can find *any* page in less that 7clics. Ps: I commented before finishing the video, but it's a good demonstration of the 7links rule. You can clearly see on that bell graph that almost all the articles were linked after 7clics.

[@WootZoot]

Explaining overly complex charts over smooth jazz is my favorite KZbin genre.

[@Yugemostsuj]

Royalty free music accompanied unhinged rants are a close second

[@aaronnekrin5150]

I swear the light jazz helped me understand it better lol

[@jiyzo]

i didnt even notice it lol

[@jiyzo]

​@aaronnekrin5150 i wonder if school played smooth jazz over a complicated class

[@DigDowner]

I think you'll like the vaporwave music genre. Have fun in that youtube rabbit hole

[@teagannam]

Dude you should seriously submit this graph as a series to a modern art museum!! I know it sounds strange, but it’s so unique, so visually interesting, and there are so many parts of it that reveal truths about society, politics, human behavior, etc. I know so many galleries that would just love to have this as a series!

[@DarknessDShadow]

honestly, this is something genuinely worth of the name *modern* art

[@Matthewispro69]

@@DarknessDShadow yeah it looks like paint spilled all over the place so its 100% worth the name of modern art tbh

[@nmikloiche]

I was thinking it would be a great poster or graphic for merch to support the creator. But I think you are more on point, that a modern art museum would be an amazing place to display the visual graph and also an interactive version with the concepts explained in the video.

[@electralumen165]

Imagine having this with a UI would be interesting. Letting you cycle through the categories or showing all of an articles specific connections.

[@FennecGeek]

​@@electralumen165this is so important!

[@MaeveWumbo]

Just that family making up community 42 made me smile. Seeing a robust algorithm in action is awesome.

[@zo2o]

I checked them out. Seems they are no longer an orphan comunity, as many links were introduced in the article, like"Englis Politician" and other nonsense. Or maybe I misunderstood the situation completely...

[@Speedster___]

@@zo2oit’s been a month since the video. It’s been updated

[@alphabeth8992]

As a former Wikipedia editor, this is really cool to see! I regularly make use of the SpecialPages Orphaned, Deadend, Unconnected or Redirect to try and improve the linked data structure. I would really love seeing Wikipedia take this project as a source for more linked improvements!

[@KasperMcKay]

Thank you for your service Wikipedia is one of humanities greatest creations

[@lukasbartos2101]

also editing my language version of wikipedia and I'm just curious - was there a reason why you stopped?

[@GreeeenCat]

Petition to run the code to make this graph yearly to see how it changes.

[@AmIAPacifist]

I second this

[@rushnbh]

Now that's something that will sorta reflect the human knowledge base and how we evolved to an even tighter better connected world.

[@RevennlyTwentyThree]

I'm in

[@claytonharting9899]

Signed

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Should run continously to see how it changes continously.

[@mat_name_whatever]

The fact that the "Fanta Cake" was noticeably edited during the making of the video is hilarious

[@solarnaut]

I did not know that I had a single thought about Fanta Cake . . . BUTT . . . NOW That You Mention It . . . blah . . . Blah . . . B L A H !

[@patrickday4206]

And obviously they were both wrong and I should edit it 😂 Fanta cake the choice of the nazis

[@ekhmuel]

So have the Acton family articles.

[@ACOUSTITRON-mp6tc]

The observation of the phenomenon changes the results…

[@SafetyLucas]

@@ACOUSTITRON-mp6tc Same with Veritasium's 37 video

[@klickeldiklick]

I can’t believe I watched a 20 minutes video about Wikipedia graphs to be finally be surprised with Fantakuchen as one of the most special articles. I just had Fantakuchen on Easter this year and it was one of my favorite birthday cakes all childhood long (next to Donauwelle, wave of the river Donau). Applause!

[@thecorruptversion]

Lmao typical german, he wants to make clear that he's from germany. Writes fantakuchen despite being able to write everything else in english, then donauwelle and then the pretentious applause. All germans are the same, I have no idea why the chauvinism.

[@Arthutstut641]

Shout out to 'videos explaining complex topics with graphs and charts while smooth jazz plays in the background' Gotta be one of mi favorite genres

[@eric1393]

Big Jon Bois vibes for sure.

[@gemhunter498]

I really hope the Wikipedia groups start talking about this, this is really cool to see

[@ICountFrom0]

I hope that this causes people to add links to orphans and dead ends.

[@yhubtfufvcfyfc]

It will probably be included in our internal newspaper the signpost.

[@herpederpe4320]

Maybe you should lift a finger instead of asking others to do it

[@gemhunter498]

@@herpederpe4320 no offense, but if I was a Wikipedia editor I would be part of the problem

[@ponponpatapon9670]

@@herpederpe4320 not everyone is cut out to be a Wikipedia editor. the folks who're self-aware of this fact thus respect Wikipedia and-in a way-help it by not breaking anything

[@ICountFrom0]

I want a CURSED wikipedia race as a prank. You host, you select at "random" but all of them are 10th degree separation OR HIGHER.

[@thunderboltpoplays1177]

good idea!

[@ReliableExcavationDemolition]

But most Wikipedia races already take 20+ clicks so having a minimum of 10 clicks won’t really change much

[@amelted]

i have a feeling that trying to calculate that would quickly turn into the traveling salesman problem

[@oshotz]

@@ameltedTSP is a completely different problem; to find pages 10 degrees of separation or greater, you could just use a breadth-first search, similar to what he showed in the video when analyzing degrees of separation. This is possible in polynomial time (I believe O(n^2) in the worst case, but feel free to correct me if it's wrong; it most certainly is polynomial, however).

[@markhaus]

@@ReliableExcavationDemolitionyeah and you probably take 20 clicks to bridge a 4th degree or so relation. Just because you didn’t personally find the shortest link doesn’t mean it’s the shortest link. 10 degrees or more would be absolutely brutal for a human

[@E_T_31]

I love the Internet! 14:25 The Acton family was immediately welcomed -back- into the wider Wikipedia community xD

[@joeym5243]

You ABSOLUTELY need to make merch on this image (posters and shirts), because I would absolutely eat it up!

[@lolicacilyourismaniacopitelius]

My bedsheet already looks like this but for another reason 😂

[@ethanherzig2769]

@@lolicacilyourismaniacopitelius🤨

[@skizzers_]

The algorithm is sleeping on this one update: The algorithm was sleeping on this one

[@bobdrooples]

It's ok...I'm here now.

[@dvorakgigachad1444]

no the video is for nerds

[@matimercad0rs]

i thought it already had like 7m views

[@whannabi]

Wake it up then lol

[@PaperSmiles]

It brought me here.

[@ayushpandey8223]

I work in graph and graph database research and i have not seen such a beautiful, succinct and well presented graph ever. I think an average person would never fathom the amount of computer science that backs this video up. Huge congratulations to the creator.

[@stco2426]

Agree!

[@randomusermaximuss]

Many maps are useless until you have the key.

[@roe_is_here]

lol same, im wondering how many days it took to run the visualization. Not to mention editing any errors notes 😅

[@H2-HQ]

I completely agree, but I actually watched the video with one main question, which I believe didn't get answered: How are the articles or regions positioned on the X and Y axis on the graph?

[@andnekon]

@@H2-HQ There are no X and Y axis on a graph, you can arrange nodes in any way you like

[@chigginheadD]

you should absolutely render HD images of the graph, it's beautiful, 4k at least if not super high res

[@007i1]

The image is 19200 x 10800 btw. 4K is 3840 x 2160

[@chigginheadD]

@@007i1 awesome, is there a link?

[@007i1]

@@chigginheadD No i just looked at the code

[@CrossLight98]

This is an incredible video. Despite being 19 minutes long it felt like it was ending before it even started, I was so interested.

[@mr.m7724]

This is honestly one of the most interesting videos I've seen on youtube in the past 6 years.

[@sa88]

What was the most interesting video you watched 6 years ago?

[@davidandrs3535]

@@sa88 That is a great question

[@xDaniik]

why exactly 6

[@ismaeltorresmoreno5332]

we are wondering bro

[@heythatsprettygood6492]

what was the last one

[@kevinslater4126]

Dude came up with one of the most significant and important studies of Wikipedia ever conceived for a game. Amazing.

[@sprgeorge333]

Honestly, I studied network graphs as part of my PhD, this analysis was better and more interesting that 99% of them for aure.

[@missmia196]

For real! We love visionary data nerds!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

A study of about 1/10th of wikipedia

[@user-bl9hq2gf6i]

@@sprgeorge333 honestly i did too and this is NOT more interesting or intelligent than any of the papers i read.

[@user-mm9ve4le6m]

​@@sprgeorge333 this is more interesting than my bachelors thesis on github collaboration networks xd

[@schulzentrumamstern]

I found: Athletics at the 1953 Arab Games -> Athletics at the 2004 Arab Games -> United States -> List of district attorneys by county -> Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -> Pennsylvania Route 999 -> List of highways numbered 999

[@mathematicskid]

It must have changed since the video was made, also it has changed back since you posted your comment

[@rossjennings4755]

​@@mathematicskid This made me curious, so I checked the history page for "Pennsylvania Route 999". It has only been edited once since 2022, which was about 2 weeks ago, on April 8, 2024: after this video came out, but before OP's comment. This was an edit from user Nikitan3096 that removed a link to "List of highways numbered 999" from the "See also" section. So this path wasn't available in the graph because it didn't include "See also" links, and now it's not available at all because the link was removed.

[@marcoshayman8535]

I think this is not what he meant, is not that the shortest path from "Athletics at the 1953 Arab Games" to "List of highways numbered 999" was 166, but rather the longer, meaning you couldn't find a longer path between those two articles without looping

[@krugerstan]

@@marcoshayman8535 I don't think so. It's supposed to be the longest "shortest possible path" if that makes sense.

[@mechm1nd]

It was in "See also" section which is excluded by rules explained in video

[@nabilbouraya9545]

Literally everything in this video was so wholesome, for a number of reasons.

[@williamross6477]

“A complete waste of time”, “Mildly interesting”, hell no, I was thinking that graph looks freaking BEAUTIFUL!

[@solarnaut]

" This is your brain . . . " < sizzle . . . > " And this is your brain on wikipedia . . . " B---)

[@yonaoisme]

but only after understanding what it is

[@williamross6477]

@@solarnaut My brain isn’t famous enough to be on Wikipedia 😋

[@EmbeddedSorcery]

It's like a galaxy map of humanity.

[@williamross6477]

@@yonaoisme not really, I find it beautiful as a work of art, but knowing that it’s actually a data graph with millions of nodes makes it SOOO much better!

[@jakobmax3299]

Community 27 (Figure skating) is truly special. Almost all major Figure skaters have similarly formatted wikipedia pages with quite detaile info about their skating carreers. This hints towards that they have been majorly edited or set up by a very small group of dedicated fans.

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

Didicated.

[@ravenger2445]

Dictated.

[@vcom741]

Wrestlers articles used to be similar… and then it was hijacked by an asshole mod on Wikipedia who wanted users to use their shitty wikia for their information. Wrestler articles used to have their movesets, their finishers, their entrance songs, etc.

[@blindleader42]

The same for alpine ski racers at the World Cup level. I don't know about the other snow sports sanctioned by FIS.

[@anotheryoutubeaccount5259]

​@@vcom741 Isn't that more appropriate for a specific Wiki than Wikipedia? The latter just tells you what wrestling is.

[@pranaypallavtripathi2460]

I would definitely love to see a video explaining in detail how you made such a graph : the methods and tools used, the code, etc. Great work btw. Keep it up 👍

[@user-bl9hq2gf6i]

its super easy. hes completely exaggerating . for visualization of very big graphs you can use gephi which is open source and you can also use it without the gui and run it on servers with multiple nodes, so it does NOT take forever to compute like he claims.

[@clcsqueejy04]

Amazing work with this video. I had so many ideas spring to mind while looking at the graph and the possibilities of searching the information, and you addressed all of them. Was incredibly entertaining and insightful.

[@seanbrautigan7906]

Absolutely fascinating video. The Fanta Cake bit at the end is a great example that for most orphans or dead ends, it's a matter of what could be considered bad article formatting/linking. I looked at the Wikipedia article for William Acton (senior) and someone has already destroyed the Acton group solitary-ness by adding links to the page for "Politics of England" off of the phrase "English politician" Great video! Fantastic work : )

[@kmacgregor6361]

My first thought too - this video is 5 days old, no way those Acton family articles are still their own group. Sure enough. ;)

[@BramLastname]

While those Acton links seem a bit forced to me, They did also link them to bailiff and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Which they always should've been.

[@Fire_Axus]

real

[@FireyDeath4]

Solitude?

[@retnoartanti1976]

Fanta cakestic

[@distanced]

This sort of thing deserves to be an actual feature on Wikipedia, it's so well done. Would be super cool to play around with an interactive version of this, or have it regularly updated to take a timelapse of how it changes.

[@cf_spacetime]

We'll be doing well for them to get regular charts back working first.

[@spdcrzy]

The computing involved with an interactive, LIVE version of this would be...non-trivial to maintain.

[@AL-lh2ht]

There already is something very similar already.

[@d.b.4671]

I could see a tool like this being particularly useful for cleanup. Those "highways numbered 9xx" articles could probably be consolidated.

[@SquooshyShark1000]

@@AL-lh2ht which is?

[@geisaune793]

Great vid thanks. This vid reminds me of a Chart Party video from Jon Bois. The type of music, the voice over, the slow zoom-ins and zoom-outs, the insane amount of work and statistics. Great stuff

[@IncitingTheShrew]

Absolutely outstanding work, well done and thank you. 10/10 for technicals, analysis, explanation, and visuals.

[@MYG]

This graph is really beautiful, you should make it into a poster

[@70sman]

It's gorgeous, i hope he uploaded it to wikimedia commons

[@pizza-hero1115]

I would genuinely print it out and put it up on my wall

[@markusszogi5722]

Great visualisation! Would like to put it on my wall as food for thought poster.

[@TextBoxxerHelloWorld]

THEY FORGOT PHYSICS MATH BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY AND ALL OTHER SUBJECTS THAT ARE NORMALLY VERY THOUGHT BASED

[@mosia2675]

"What's on your wall?" "Oh nothing, just Wikipedia"

[@thiagoporto7879]

You just took a topic that I would probably spend my life without ever giving a single thought to, and made a video that was an absolute joy to watch. If there's a KZbin Hall of Fame, this one belongs in it.

[@HazhMcMoor]

This is even more impressive. He talks about something I've seen done to dead by lots of other people (see his cheeky reference to mildly interesting reddit) and it's still new and fresh to me. I almost don't watch this article but when I finally budge and I don't regret it.

[@eggquinox5358]

need a short series on this discussing as much as you possibly can. i was so hooked on this video.

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

Did anyone ever play the "Wikipedia game" back in High School? Where you start at the same link with the guy you're competing with, and then whoever gets to the "desired page" or end topic first wins! Once they blocked pretty much every other thing on the internet at school back in the day... this game was where it was at!

[@tsunoxx]

We called it the „Hitler game“ because that was always the desired page 💀

[@d.b.624]

I used to play "6+ degrees"...you'd get two pages, and have to connect them. Hard mode was no "philosophy."

[@calvinmills4069]

Did you watch the video? He explains the game in the video, specifically! Like, it's the whole reason the video exists XD

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

@@calvinmills4069 I must've zoned out on that part, lol. Cause all i was thinking about since clicking the thumb nail was "the Wikipedia game, the Wikipedia game, the Wikipedia game", so I probably just missed it

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

@@calvinmills4069 What was the timestamp on that?

[@Jane_8319]

One of my favorite wikipedia trivia bits is that, at least for a long time, by clicking the first non-disambunction or pronunciation link, you will eventually end up on philosophy. I think some of the natural sciences end up being recursive now but it used to all link to philosophy.

[@alexschott9567]

Trying it now, my first try unfortunately got stuck in Telecommunications Network Node

[@maxwellanderson8412]

I remember doing this!!! I didn't hear about it from anywhere I just clicked the first article link (non pronunciation or disambiguation) and I always always ended up at philosophy where it recursed!!!

[@Tremoneck]

Part of the reason is that a couple of people found this fact, then checked it. The 1% that didn't end on philosophy where changed to end at philosophy.

[@hmmm713]

Holy shit it actually worked. It still works to this day

[@carson1223]

I remember when I discovered this a killjoy had cut the link between knowledge and philosophy and broke the chain. Then they would revert any edits that added the link back

[@Avighna]

This is my favourite example of the power of being able to explain niche things disconnected from the general public’s interest well. You turned a seemingly useless thing: a graph of Wikipedia articles into an amazing, engaging, and thought provoking, inspiring video, highlighting each of the things that you’ve explored, with perfect transitions for dramatic effect and amazing animations and visuals. This is a mind-blowing video, keep it up!

[@euli_mo]

Sound like chatgpt output 😂

[@Avighna]

@@euli_mo Well, it’s not.

[@theoverreactor8731]

ChatGPT ahh comment

[@singularbear8656]

​@@theoverreactor8731it's not, there is a ponctuation error. Why would he use ChatGPT anyways?

[@aeniala6385]

@@euli_mo so anyone who can put together three sentences that aren't basic af sounds like chatgpt, ok then

[@alienrobotcommando]

Man, this is what I always dreamed of. Turn this into a functional program, and you got the world's best search engine.

[@EVHStrat]

This Video is OUTSTANDING. Your presentation, the beautiful graphics, the fitting music, your sense of visual style. It just really resonates with me. Thank you for your hard work!

[@elduderino007]

Canada and Hockey being one community/category is amazing. The fact that you know 100% for certain that the article for Tim Hortons is in that category is just the glue of perfection.

[@Ps5prolite]

Completely irrelevant. What matters is China

[@elduderino007]

@@Ps5prolite OK grandpa, go take your meds.

[@MrMickio1]

I mean, yea. Tim horton is a famous hockey player so its pretty much impossible for it not to link to hockey.

[@elduderino007]

@@MrMickio1 Someone tells a joke. This guy: "That is factually accurate."

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@MrMickio1So famous I’ve literally never heard of them. I didn’t even know they were a genuine person until this thread! (Then again, that could just be a logical side effect of my complete lack of interest in sports in general, and the complete lack of TH outlets anywhere near where I live!)

[@bathbomber]

I think a way to find the absolute longest path would be to start at the "list of highways numbered 825" article and start mapping pathways backwards from there. Whatever you end up with, you can add the links from 825->999 to that

[@colecancode]

Longest path is an NP-hard problem, it would take an absurd amount of time on a graph like this.

[@theworm7156]

I went backwards from 825 and found 530 and it goes down from there

[@jsax01001010]

The path he found also starts with a small chain too, stepping through the articles, "Athletics at the [year] Arab games".

[@geekjokes8458]

like a highway

[@Meme-2038]

just start at number 1 and end up at 999

[@henrymorgan6552]

I love that you've seemingly taken inspiration from Chart Party and Jon Bois with your choice of soundtrack. I don't know why lounge jazz works so well with data journalism but it just does

[@nathanegnew1923]

This is an amazing (if not immediately useful) batch of data analysis. Additionally, it's very well presented. Nicely done.

[@aperturegames3984]

you know you've made a good video when every second of it can become a wallpaper or a T-shirt

[@funty420]

Fantakuken wallpaper

[@yomajo]

good luck with 1:36

[@davisjian8250]

*DISGUISED DEAD END ORPHAN* 18:39

[@LimeLoaf]

​@@davisjian8250id wear that

[@ikwenmusic]

10:41 wallpaper

[@RevennlyTwentyThree]

Regarding about Fanta Cake page, the page has just updated again several times since the beginning of April, now the page is even expanded with more information in it (Soda Cake section added), "Fantakuchen" redirect page removed, and is neither Dead End nor Orphan page anymore, much like a normal article now!

[@luiskerscher5047]

"f" for Fantakuchen😢

[@dibujugador6024]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭

[@maksrambe3812]

​@luiskerscher5047 don't worry, I checked and fantakuchen still exists. Only the link to fantakuchen in the fanta cake page has been removed.

[@luiskerscher5047]

@@maksrambe3812 Thank you, thats one issue off of my list. Well appreciated!

[@realm0720]

we should call this process adoption💀

[@briansimpson9318]

Awesome analysis, this is really interesting work. I hope you continue to do more!

[@joppo758]

This exactly answered all the questions and ideas I had playing wikipedia race. Amazing work!

[@chasenewman9900]

as a student currently in alogrithms and graph theory this is insane. wonderful project and video man

[@clamhammer2463]

I was thinking that creating a graph database of this data might make for an interesting project.

[@GriffDidSomeThingsWrong]

It's so wholesome to see how after this video came out, people immediately went to the orphaned articles and linked them to others. It really goes to show just how much some people would do for others to not feel lonely; even when talking about mere articles. I know lately some of us can't see anything other than negativity around, but please don't forget kindness exists. People you don't even know yet may already be caring for you.

[@Noway-sg8md]

im pretty sure people took the opportunity to ruin them, no longer making them orphaned, spoiling the fun, but seems you have a brighter outlook

[@revenevan11]

Reminds me of one of my favorite paper titles, something like: "Object Personification in Autism; this paper will be very sad if you don't read it." I heard about this paper from Bettina Levy's channel, she read out some tumblr posts about it. (I commented about it somewhere else months ago and still get notifications that I'm getting likes lol 😅). I'm glad these wikipedia editor volunteers are finding these poor orphaned articles some lovely links to care for them 🥺

[@tyedie4490]

​@@Noway-sg8md New articles are being written everyday many are orphans and dead ends. I feel the fun is in the way it lives. It grows and expans as everyday people see something and decide to add it to the ever growing library. It's a sense of comunity and learning that is rare these days.

[@cheesechess-tr7pd]

​@@Noway-sg8mdand the most pessimistic comment in the entire history of youtube is this comment. Wouldn't that make it more accessible

[@RT-.]

@@cheesechess-tr7pd Yeah I agree, that's a sad way to see things

[@HumbleBasse]

I ve been looking for this graph!!! Thank you and great job

[@karim____]

Fantastic video! Thank you for explaining how you made it in the description!

[@tbxvividos]

17:20 omg I just realized "fanta cake" was why I clicked on this thumbnail and for 17 minutes I was just lost in the sauce

[@centurion_ceasar]

Update: the fanta cake article is no longer a dead end, and now has 15 links.

[@jonnamechange6854]

Is googlewhacking an orphan an indictable offense?

[@crazycreep1055]

I love how you went over so many different things related to the graph in this video. It really satisfied that curious urge you get when learning about something new

[@Fire_Axus]

your feelings are irrational

[@deetvleet]

@@Fire_Axus everyone's feelings are irrational, it came free with being a human

[@scaleonkhan183]

I agree, I really wanted to see it graphed and I got to see it!

[@sid98geek]

I wish social media, especially platforms other than KZbin, had more fascinating stuff like this. I want to experience that childlike curiosity again!

[@nigelhill74]

Very interesting. Great work. I was surprised to not see anything about (and I understand this was not your aim) foundational topics that others link back to such as maths, science, religion, civilisation, animals, plants, life, etc., and of course the famous granddaddy that almost all articles are said to link to, philosophy. Of course they don't all link back to it, as demonstrated here. It might be worth making another video on the graph to delve into other types of relationships. Thanks for your entertaining and educational video

[@bijoychandraroy]

This was incredible, thank you for sharing it, it would be cool if Wikipedia adopts this idea and make an yearly update on the graph themselves, or maybe even live?

[@TheBooker66]

I originally thought this video wouldn't be too interesting, but I clicked on it out of curiosity (and like the saying goes, you had my curiousity but now you have my attention). The amount of detail, effort and production value put into this video astounded me and I was hooked. I also appreaciate the informative description. Thank you for this wonderful video. The only thing missing is the raw data and code.

[@allahdoesnotexist3823]

He also has BDE

[@AnkitaYadav-hp9vx]

The amount of complex work this guy has presented here with understandable tone suggests that this can as well be a PhD thesis topic.

[@childofnewlight]

Seriously, he totally downplays the significance of what he's accomplished with this graph. There are so many fascinating insights here, not just about Wikipedia, but English-speaking culture.

[@under_the_sun_]

Why would you say that? I wanted to understand your perspective 🤔

[@travisumbel6877]

Just wanted to say that you picked some excellent music for this video. I'm a huge fan of instrumental funky jazz music and you killed it on all fronts.

[@LatiasVro]

this might be one of the coolest videos i've ever seen, fantastic stuff dude

[@kyleallred984]

1. How many Wikipedia editors are now looking to make sure all pages are linked. Eliminating orphans and dead ends. 2. Wikipedia should add this somehow to give a visualization of its vast knowledge.

[@redcoat4348]

long-time wikipedia editor here. There have existed entire projects which have tried to eliminate orphan and dead end articles. At least for orphan articles I believe there are hidden categories that flag them. I think the OP could've made use of Wikiprojects in order to link related articles together instead of just using outbound links, though I guess that if his analysis is based on the wikipedia game that it makes sense why he wouldn't. Wikiprojects already give you something similar to his idea of "communities" of articles

[@drbuckley1]

@@redcoat4348 A more pressing problem is correction of false information.

[@darrennew8211]

Why eliminate orphans and dead ends? The entire internet is not just wikipedia links.

[@halycon404]

@@drbuckley1 Won't ever be fixed. People try, and I salute them for it. Wikipedia is a guidebook not an answer book. Wikipedia usually gives enough of an overview, correct or incorrect, to start looking up information elsewhere. Trying to make it an answer book is impossible.

[@afluka]

Before I even finished the video, I went to check on the Actons and found one of the pages edited an hour ago, adding more links. RIP community 42

[@edensdreams2890]

Dude. 200 views in an hour on this is *criminal*, this should be blowing up. I wouldn't be surprised if Ye Algorithme picks this up and it's in the 100,000s sooner or later.

[@KayJblue]

Honestly I can see this getting millions lmao.

[@mxdanger]

It could get way more but I personally think he really missed the mark with the thumbnail and title choice.

[@BombsanTheCommenter]

As a member of the thousands club I don't doubt the video could get 100,000 views given enough time

[@pepsalt]

@@BombsanTheCommenter ye, its a very unique and interesting video

[@kevinslater4126]

@@pepsalt It's also culturally significant and important. We few can say, I remember when that had only 3000 views!

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Thx for your reasearch, I love wikipedia, always found it hard to explain to people why, this makes it not a bit easier, but it was interesting.

[@ipaqmaster]

Interesting findings. This confirms my general thought that somebody who knows how Wikipedia handles linking to other articles can be leveraged to get to a intended destination article with minimal effort.

[@RexxSchneider]

The issue not explored is that there are Wikipedia editors who have an intense interest in one topic or narrow groups of topics. That shapes the style and linking for many groups of articles which become mainly the work of a single author. At 3:50 it's not at all surprising that the principal authors of articles on Association Football are completely different from the authors of Gridiron Football; each set of authors will know comparatively little about the other topic and will therefore be far less likely to cross-link them. If you want to look deeper into how editors shape articles, you will want to study the various Wikiprojects -- groups of editors who work together to improve a specific topic.

[@johannageisel5390]

Good point!

[@malteplath]

You deserve an award for this work and this video! It is really interesting how some of the "communities" are structured. BTW: If you write up your findings in a Wikipedia page, linking to all the orphans in your graph, you would drastically reduce the number of orphans in Wikipedia.

[@edopronk1303]

That's brilliant!

[@lajawi2115]

I've commented this on another comment as well, but what about a page "List of Wikipedia Orphan Articles"! Same can be done for "List of Wikipedia Dead End Articles" lol

[@darthpotatozqt]

list of every wikipedia page

[@BlueShadow7777]

@@lajawi2115 Both of those pages already exist! The reason orphan articles don't become automatically un-orphaned from being in that list is because the list is not in the "main" Wikipedia space, but a special section of Wikipedia that has editing guides and the likes, and so it doesn't really count as a link

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

A few days ago I responded to a comment on a video that was providing helpful information to the KZbinr, but the information was slightly incorrect. I provided a polite correction to the comment, and I got a thank you in response. Today, I was browsing the fandom wiki for that subject and I noticed in one of the articles in the trivia section, it stated the helpful information including the small piece that was incorrect. I was confused, so I went to the main article about the topic and it was correct, but the trivia section was incorrect and didn't even link to the main article. I quickly realized that this was where the misinformation was coming from, so I edited the first article to have the correct information and link to the main article about that topic, then went back to the original comment to explain that one of the wiki articles was wrong so I fixed it to prevent someone else from being confused about it.

[@ImStevan]

This is amazing. You should totally do more with this

[@joshuawilcox]

one of the most well made youtube videos on data visualisation i have ever seen. good job

[@jamescollier3]

there's a website that does this for any link

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

I wasn't thinking it was a waste of time, I was thinking that it was beautiful and looked like a universe.

[@paulmccartney2327]

Why do you have 3 furaffinity accounts

[@paulmccartney2327]

what is wrong with you

[@paulmccartney2327]

Why are you a broken human being

[@paulmccartney2327]

>Springing a leak

[@paulmccartney2327]

>Sparkly skunk mascot~

[@Nooticus]

Absolutely incredible video. Can’t even comprehend the work that went into this!! Being a Wikipedia editor is one of the greatest joys!

[@kaiyo666]

Such a cool idea! Despite it not really being feasible, I’d love to see this in some form of interactive website, where you could see all the connections between articles and all the different groups.

[@TrueBlueKangaroo]

I can not express how joyful I am that Rugby, on its own, managed to become an entire category.

[@Charmly7035]

i had the exact same reaction, i love rugby

[@dr.vikyll7466]

Same with norwegian politics... on english wikipedia and I checked, it's very fleshed out.

[@realtimestatic]

same importance as category 42, 4 members of the former british parliament as an orphan group

[@medicTF2.]

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[@em7dim9]

And what is so special about Norwegian politicians versus the politicians of 200 other countries? It seems quite bizarre!

[@efari]

In the segment of “longest path” you should’ve more clearly said the “longest shortest path” (or: shortest path with the most nodes.) since obviously longer paths can exist if you just deviate away from the goal

[@somedude4832]

That seems like a given because if that weren’t the case almost any article could loop forever between 2 or 3 things. If you consider the path as not being able to repeat pages, that would likely be several million articles long.

[@rickpgriffin]

@@somedude4832 That'd also be the most nightmare-inducing Hamiltonian path problem possible

[@anu7599]

yea, but also to actually find the longest shortest past and not just guess that it was the 166 one shouldn t he had just picked a random page, do a bfs, go to the the page which was the farthest away and do a bfs again? And do it for all conex components

[@luniba478]

I'm actually kinda interested in the path since "list of highways numbered 1000" and "list of highways numbered 999." point at each other. If I'm not making a mistake this implies the same length from the start to either "list of highways numbered 998" and "list of highways numbered 1000." otherwise the path would be shorter or going to the next article would be a longer shortest path.

[@Totalaerus]

I'm impressed by all the work that went into this video. It answered so many questions I'd had about Wikipedia!

[@Imaproshaman7]

This is amazing. I love the style of it. I wonder how this would look with the SCP wiki considering how small it is.

[@nickazg]

Wow! This is probably the most beautiful presentation of connected data I've ever seen. Would be awesome if you were able to make this into an interactive website 👀

[@veenmikki27]

That would be super awesome

[@michaelcherokee8906]

There's something beautiful about how telling us of this information causes alot of it to be improved on.

[@theprogrammer8200]

That was actually really eye opening. Didn't expect that at the first glance. Thx for your efforts. God bless you!

[@CrossLight98]

Instantly amazing background music plays well done for such a good selection

[@just-another-lunatic]

this was really interesting. Also, as a German, your pronaunciation of "Kuchen" sounded really cute for some reason.

[@crizpycheese8287]

Absolutely amazing video. Can finally beat my friends at the wikipedia game for the first time

[@badgermcbadger1968]

You mean the one where you need to search for links to get you to a goal article? You can cheat by editing the original article and adding the link to the goal article

[@Laezar1]

@@badgermcbadger1968 why would you though?

[@badgermcbadger1968]

@@Laezar1 because i find it boring and it's pretty funny the first time

[@Laezar1]

@@badgermcbadger1968 you don't have to play a game you find boring though xD you can just tell your friends no, it's not like it's a tournament with prize money on the line or anything, all you'll get by cheating is break the trust of your friends. Idk that just seems like a really strange and low stake situation to cheat in.

[@koks49045]

the problem with this game is most articles are some random weird stuff like list of something or a village, if there was a fillterted version where only articles that are like concepts or some important stuff like country existed, then it would make sense, but also like each article should have atmost 10 hyperlinks that link to stuff that is rly related

[@splintmeow4723]

This was a beautiful project. Love the visualisation of the data.

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

This is brilliant!! These visualizations are fascinating!

[@freddy4603]

Community number 42 is about family, how poetic 🥰

[@BramLastname]

It's also no longer in isolation, Well, okay, as far as I could find it's still impossible to get in, But you can get out of the community now.

[@johannesandersson9477]

Unexpected intersection of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and Fast & Furious 😄

[@melitajay]

​@@johannesandersson9477Is that how many of those films there is now? 😂

[@dielaughing73]

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

[@BramLastname]

@@dielaughing73 69?

[@sagerobot]

Great video. Superb yet subtle editing skills. The kind where you dont even notice how good it was. Also the jazz was a killer choice.

[@sogerfoweltami790]

I just found out about your channel, and I love your content. please do more of your content 🙏🙏

[@GaiaCarney]

This is interesting ⭐️ Thank You for creating & sharing this!

[@MrJonyish]

Your editing and sound editing in this highly commendable by the way. Extraordinarily smooth and intentionally timed without being too obnoxious in anyway.

[@DrTortoisePHD]

can I like... buy a poster of this?

[@ChosenMango4233]

This is really cool to see, the visuals are weirdly pretty, I'm surprised at how space like the graph appears sometimes 😳😳

[@Baizza]

Thank you algo for this one. Awesome stuff man! ❤

[@RonyPlayer]

The articles on the Altons made me think of constelations and galaxies. Like how most stars are bound together by gravity in galaxies and clusters, but then you have intergalatic or rogue stars, that are just not bound to any galaxy. I just find neat how we can find similar patterns in so different parts of reality.

[@TheSoftwareNerd]

Well, now the Actons are not an orphan group anymore.

[@shivanshtomar18]

You might like emergent phenomenon and universality of dynamical system

[@qwertydavid8070]

The idea of an intergalactic rouge star is kinda terryfing. Like, how did it even get there?? Why did it just get lost. Is it just incredibly ancient and has just always been there since the beginning of the universe? Or did some ungodly cataclysmic event rip it out of it's galaxy? How do you even rip a star out of it's own galaxy?? It's easy to imagine rouge planets. You hear about them all the time. Galaxies are relatively dense so it's easy to imagine how a passing star could rip a planet out of it's home system. But even then, rouge planets still exist within their own galaxies. What ungodly apocalyptic catastrophe has to occur for a star to end up in intergalactic space???

[@a2izzard]

​@@qwertydavid8070It's actually pretty dull. They just get to close to a supermassive blackhole at a wrong angle, and they're sent flying off!

[@qwertydavid8070]

@@a2izzard It's still crazy that their sent flying off all the way into intergalactic space. Galaxies are humongous, you'd think that along the way the star would eventually get attracted by the gravitational pull of the galaxy itself. Then again, for as big as they are, galaxies are still mostly empty. It's like how neutrinos can seemingly phase through matter. They are just so tiny that things that appear solid to us just aren't to them. The gaps between atoms are like the gaps between planets at that scale. I guess stars are just so tiny when compared to an entire galaxy that they can just pass through without interacting with anything.

[@joshualieberman2265]

I need an overtime with how this graph changes. Great work. This is actually extremely important and someone needed to make this. Seriously good job.

[@tigerenmars]

This is one of the most interesting videos I've stumbled upon in a long time! Absolutely fantastic..

[@irishdance6692]

Great video! I might share this with my Applied Maths class to show them how graph theory is relevant

[@ali-g]

This is some beyond level data scraping and analyzing. Well done adumb! Diving into your other videos now.

[@ReesePuffSwag]

Took a complex graph theory class in college and loved creating / analyzing these node graphs. Your videos are awesome!

[@random_internaut]

istg every time i made myself a question you went ahead and answered it. great video

[@compasscrafting1147]

What an awesome video. Thanks for the fun interpretation of the data!