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		paulgb on Aug 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can We Please Kill This Meme Now > Almost all Wikipedia articles are within 4 hops of each other. Neat fact, do you happen to have the source? I'd be interested in hearing more on this.

joeyo on Aug 3, 2009 [–]

I couldn't find anything definitive, but here are some papers on the topic:

http://mint.typepad.com/mypapers/pp017-lizorkin.pdf

http://www.fran.it/articles/wikimania_bellomi_bonato.pdf

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=arnumber=4...

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