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Wikipedia: 97% of all articles lead to Philosophy


Getting to Philosophy Clicking on the first link in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually leads to the Philosophy article. In February 2016, this was true for 97% of all articles in Wikipedia[1] (including this one), an increase from 94.52% in 2011.

Since the edit, there have been numerous attempts to switch the order of the links, but these were reverted as consensus about the definition used has been reached. Mathematician Hannah Fry demonstrated the method in the 'Marmalade', 'socks' and 'One Direction'[5] section of the 2016 BBC Documentary The Joy of Data. Cultural Structures of Knowledge from Wikipedia Networks of First Links, a study that looks at how this phenomenon varies across languages.

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