Wiki-Fu Tournament

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I suggest making it a bit easier, going from A to B is hard enough to have to step by C in the middle.

[Aggie]

Limit to basic wiki-fu?  OK, we can do that.


I liked the idea of waypoints because straight A->B paths are proving to be very short, and the path lengths don't differ much.   Also, there's little motivation to submit an entry if you can't beat the first one posted (whereas using waypoints allowed meaningful ties).  But I do want to keep this fast and fun, so A->B might be best.


Basic Wiki-Fu

1. Starting at the Destination Article from the previous round, find and post a path to the new Destination Article by following links contained within each article page. 
2. The path must be entirely clickable from article to article - one-way links to a PREVIOUS article in the pathway do not count.
3. The shortest path wins.
4. A winner is declared by the 'referee' (winner of previous round) when it appears that no more entries will be received. The winner becomes the referee for the next round and supplies the next Destination Article.
5. If two paths of the same length are provided, the FIRST person to submit a 'shortest path' is the winner and becomes the referee for the next round.
6. Duplicate paths are not permitted.
7. Players not able to beat a previously entered path are encouraged to post their paths anyways, or declare a 'fold'.

[Aggie]

I'll close the last round and start a new one, if I haven't lost y'all:

Keystone Species

to

Obfuscation   

[Swatopluk]

Too tired to deal with that this evening.

[Aggie]

We'll leave this round open for the weekend - approach at your leisure.

[beagle]

Keystone Species
Salmon
Japan
Names of Japan
Obfuscation

[Swatopluk]

Don't see a way to beat that.

[Griffin NoName]

Nor do I.

[Aggie]

Keystone Species
North America
English Language
Obfuscation

Obfuscation was HARD to link into.

[Griffin NoName]

Ah I didn't know "obfuscate" counted as a link to "obfuscation". None of the instances of "obfuscation" I found (and I found plenty) were actually links. Sour grapes and pedancy.

[Aggie]

There's still time for an entry.  Anything you can click on is fair game, as long as it'll get you to the next article.  Click-click-click-click... 



I had an equally hard time finding links, but I think Search turned up a variety of suffixes.

[Aggie]

Round is now closed.

Next round:
Obfuscation

to

Apple (as a bonus to the computer-literate, I will also take Apple Inc. as a destination, if that helps).


Paths in should be easy on this one, provided you can get out of Obfucation.

[Swatopluk]

Obfuscation
propaganda
astroturfing
Apple Inc.

[Aggie]

For a runner-up position:

Obfuscation
Text-based (computing)
Graphical user interface
Apple Inc.

I suspect Griffin of Beagle can top this, even though it'd require a single bridge-word.

[Griffin NoName]

I will look later as I have to do RL at preset.