I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found

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A deep dive into the network of Wikipedia and some of the the most interesting, bizarre, and unique articles on the website.

Music:
Beyond the Wall - Sugoi
How About Now? - Andreas Dahlbäck
First Horizon - ELFL
Neroli - Ennio Máno
Tree Tops - Autohacker

Technical details for nerds:
Data is collected from Wikipedia dumps
Graph is made with python-igraph
Distributed Recursive Layout algorithm is used for the graph layout
Leiden algorithm is used for community detection
A valid article is any page in Wikipedia's article namespace excluding redirect pages, disambiguation pages, and soft redirects
A valid link is a link in an articles body. Links that appear in or after the "See Also" section and links that appear as footnotes are not included since these are not really a part of the article's body. Links in and after the "See Also" section of pages are typically not used in Wikipedia races.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Communities
4:07 Popular Articles
7:38 Orphans & Dead Ends
10:23 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
14:56 Longest Path on Wikipedia
17:06 FANTA CAKE
19:20 Outro