The Longest Now

Now you can find out how far removed two Wikipedia articles are from one another… more or less. Give this script two article titles and let it rip.

Of course it needs some tweaking, removing the easy links b/t articles, such as years and days (which get linked often, in a quirk of WP style), but it’s ”’wicked fun”’ to use. Sample results:

Barry Bonds →American football →Basketball →January 20 →1970s →Barry Manilow

Cheers →Alcoholism →Clich