# jwngr/sdow

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Repository: https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sdow
Homepage: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wikipedia
Last push: 2026-08-07T02:51:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4302, "days_push": 26, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1890, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:49.511373+00:00)

## What it is
Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a web application that traverses Wikipedia page links to find the shortest path between any two pages on the encyclopedia. It includes a hosted website plus tooling to download or generate the underlying link database and run your own server.

## Use cases
- find the shortest path between two wikipedia pages
- play a wikiracing game connecting random articles
- analyze wikipedia link structure with a local database
- self-host a wikipedia path-finding website
- explore six degrees of separation on wikipedia

## When to choose
- you want shortest-path searches across the live Wikipedia link graph
- you want to self-host or study the full Wikipedia links database
- you want a fun educational tool for exploring article connectivity

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose wiki API client rather than path finding
- you need real-time results without downloading a large database dump
- you need non-English Wikipedia support out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, http-server
- domain: web-development, databases, education
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: wikipedia, shortest-path, graph-traversal, wikiracing, six-degrees-of-separation, search, nodejs, typescript, web-server

## Member repositories
- jwngr/sdow (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:49.511373+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:13:02.032518+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jwngr/sdow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:49.511373+00:00, sha bf42615e636c)
  - homepage: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:52:30.859130+00:00, sha 4b6dbec79983)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.