Six Degrees of Separation for Wikipedia Articles

Doing some research on the Wikimedia Foundation and I came across this really rad project called wikiGraph that a student of the Hackbright Academy created to visually demonstrate how a person can go from one subject to another, totally seemingly unrelated, subject. Not as unrelated after all.

The about page has links to a detailed discussion of the tech behind the magic. I have some learning to do! But this is kinda like a reading map for encyclopedia articles, though not curated.

Note: this mashup uses structured information from Wikipedia extracted by the DBpedia community.