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Hey HN

This is my hobby project I've been working on. At the moment there are 15231991 pages in English wikipedia, and a whopping 671872114 links between them.

This project uses custom-built Rust parser to parse through the data (in 15 minutes!) and Google BigQuery to find the shortest path between two pages using a rather simple breadth-first search query.

Let me know what you think!

We used to play this game in school. Everybody clicks random article at the same time then races to traverse links to a decided destination page.

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