Does anybody else do ?this (a wikipedia thing)

[dead0man]

So I went to look up the history of Libya because of the Italo-Turk War thread.  Twenty minutes later I'm reading about Viking Explorers and never finished reading about Libya.  According to the back button, this is the trail:
Libya
Italo-Turkish War
Dodecanese
Russia
Foreign relations of Russia
Russian -UK relations
Richard Chancelor
Archangel
Bjarmaland
Ohthere of Hålogaland

Am I ill or is this (kind of) normal?



(feel free to use this thread to bitch about wikipedia too)

[Keystone Phil]

Yeah, I find myself wanting to look up other interesting things that are mentioned in my original Wiki search. There's just too much information out there. I find myself overwhelmed at times. 

[Hash]

Did it just now:

Main Page
United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008
Independence Party of Minnesota
United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008
United States Senate election in New Hampshire, 1974
List of narrow elections
Champlain (provincial electoral district)
Noëlla Champagne
Jean D'Amour
Rivière-du-Loup (electoral district)
Quebec general election, 2008
40th Quebec general election
Affiliation Quebec
Conservative Party of Quebec

[Speed of Sound]

Oh yeah, I could spend hours or days on Wiki. One of my favourite things to look up are failed proposals for punctuation. Some of them are positively fascinating....others are really dumb.

[Bacon King]

[JSojourner]

All the time.

[Хahar 🤔]

Yes. The 6 Degrees of Wikipedia tool is fun.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I tried getting from iPhone to the Cold War. Found the path in about 5 minutes:

iPhone
Multimedia
Information
Oxford English Dictionary
English language
Indo-European language
Greek language
Balkans
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Josip Broz Tito
Non-Aligned Movement
Cold War

Emo to Barack Obama was a piece of cake:

Emo
Washington D.C.
United States
Barack Obama

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

All the time.

[patrick1]

I tried getting from iPhone to the Cold War. Found the path in about 5 minutes:

iPhone
Multimedia
Information
Oxford English Dictionary
English language
Indo-European language
Greek language
Balkans
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Josip Broz Tito
Non-Aligned Movement
Cold War

Emo to Barack Obama was a piece of cake:

Emo
Washington D.C.
United States
Barack Obama

iPhone
internet
USSR
Cold War ;p

[Хahar 🤔]

iPhone
Austria
Cold War

This is the fastest way; the tool says so.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Where is this tool?

BTW I managed to get from Emo to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre but I'll let you guys figure out how to do it. Only six steps though.

[Хahar 🤔]

Emo
Chicago
Paris
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/

[Bacon King]

iPhone
Austria
Cold War

This is the fastest way; the tool says so.

iPhone
United States
Cold War

and I didn't need no steenkin tool.

[Barnes]

I do it ALL the time!

[Hash]

Recent adventure:

Marcha Real
Anthems of the autonomous communities of Spain
Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia
Els Segadors
Os Pinos
Galician parliamentary election, 2009
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
People's Party (Spain)
Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)
Spanish general election, 1982
Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
Adolfo Suárez

not all that unrelated...

[Хahar 🤔]

Marcha Real
Alfonso XIII of Spain
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Adolfo Suárez

Adolfo Suárez
Francisco Franco
Marcha Real

[Holmes]

Bill Clinton
Homosexuality
Rent (musical)

... ok.

[Hash]

Linking a patient to her medical conditions...

Ségolène Royal
2001
Church of Satan
Stupidity

Ségolène Royal
April 5
Howard Hughes
Mental retardation

Ségolène Royal
Senegal
Drug addiction

Or:

Stephen Harper
April 30
Adolf Hitler

Stephen Harper
Feminism
Fascism

Jack Layton
Asshole

[Platypus]

One of my favourite games is wikilinking - start by clicking random page, and then find your way to a designated page.

For example, if random page comes up as 'Doris E. Day', and you're aiming for 'Azteca Stadium', the links could be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_E._Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Azteca

The links must come from the articles, not from the tables at the bottom. Sometimes it can take 20-30 articles, but it's always eventually possible.

[King]

That's nothing.

Try going from a backup shortstop on the Baltimore Orioles to the yalta conference.

True story. 

[7,052,770]

Back to the original question, I do it all the time, though I use new tabs instead of just clicking.  I'll end up with 10 or more tabs open, none of them completely read.

[Хahar 🤔]

One of my favourite games is wikilinking - start by clicking random page, and then find your way to a designated page.

For example, if random page comes up as 'Doris E. Day', and you're aiming for 'Azteca Stadium', the links could be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_E._Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Azteca

The links must come from the articles, not from the tables at the bottom. Sometimes it can take 20-30 articles, but it's always eventually possible.

It's more fun when you have a race.