Caveat: Ending up at philosophy

There is a meme (perhaps started at xkcd) that says that following the first (non parenthetical) link on a wikipedia article, recursively, always leads to the article entitled "Philosophy."  Someone built a widget online to test this.  You can try out random wikipedia articles, and see them leading to Philosophy – it draws a tree.  Here's a tree I made with some random articles using the "random" button.

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There are some caveats (naturally) to how this works – explained here (read the comments thread). I like the example of a circular set of articles (try "Exogeny" in the widget).

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