Observed arrival · 2026-10-26
Christopher’s Law: The Five-Link Wikipedia Challenge
A search tool that looks for the shortest link path from an English Wikipedia article to Adolf Hitler, testing the site’s five-links-or-fewer theory.
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- Wikipedia wanderers and link-path puzzle fans
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- Ordinary paths exclude footnotes, references, and identifier pages; linkless stubs get a marked “via references” exception.
Field notes
The page lays out a breadth-first search that expands likely hubs first and stops when the shortest path is proven. It says expanded pages retain a distance and next hop, while outgoing links are cached for later searches. Normal paths exclude footnotes, reference lists, citations, and identifier helper pages; linkless stubs can take a separately marked “via references” route.
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