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What happens if you click the first link on every Wikipedia article? - YouTube

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Wikipedia explores the fascinating phenomenon where following the first hyperlink of articles frequently leads to the philosophy page. By examining prototype theory, family resemblance, and the structure of human knowledge, this presentation investigates how collective, decentralized editing decisions shape the way information is interconnected and organized across the digital encyclopedia. Follow along using the transcript. Wikipedia explores the fascinating phenomenon where following the first hyperlink of articles frequently leads to the philosophy page. By examining prototype theory, family resemblance, and the structure of human knowledge, this presentation investigates how collective, decentralized editing decisions shape the way information is interconnected and organized across the digital encyclopedia. Follow along using the transcript.

Food for thought: in the end, are all Wikipedia rabbit holes built the same? 🤔 Matthew Prebeg (@mister.tomfoolery) walks us through the Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon. Keep learning: https://w.wiki/QpBi There's this really, really interesting phenomenon on Wikipedia where if you click on the first link of an article, the first hyperlink, and you keep clicking that for every subsequent article, eventually, 97% of the time you get to the page on philosophy. Why does it do that? How does that work? Like, how do we actually get to philosophy from any article? There's this term coined by…

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