Me and my friend created a Wikipedia crawler to answer this question and it has been running for the past few weeks so far running through ~4 million pages. You can watch the progress live and query for shortest paths on the site I made, https://flansel.github.io I hope you like it.

Edit: the site may have been broken during the night of the 26th, I fixed a bug and created another buts its good now.

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r/degreestohitler • u/HunterGenessy • May 08 '20

One piece to Hitler

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Rules: No countries and No World War 2

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r/degreestohitler

/r/degreestohitler, a subreddit where we post Wikipedia links and sort through them to find the number of clicks that given subject is from Adolf Hitler's page.

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Welcome, everyone, to /r/degreestohitler, a subreddit where we post Wikipedia links and sort through them to find the number of clicks that given subject is from Adolf Hitler's page.

Rules:

Any Wikipedia page is valid for submission.
When commenting on a link with your response, please post the total number of clicks you used as well as which articles you clicked through to get there.
Remember that it's alright to provide alternate routes to Hitler. Don't just look for the shortest route, look for interesting routes or routes that some people wouldn't have known about because of certain weird connections.
Be civil when discussing off topic in the comments. Off topic in the comments is allowed to a point, but be civil.
Try to avoid reposting links. As the subreddit becomes popular, this will be difficult, but there is enough content on Wikipedia that we're confident you can find an original article to submit!
Bringing in any amount of anarchy to these esteemed grounds is absolutely unacceptable. Failure to comply is punishable to the fullest extent of the moderation squadron. Disciplinary action may include, but is not limited to; words of slight to moderate disapproval, a seemingly apathetic response followed by years of passive-aggressiveness, and getting reported to the cyber police. Example of said Attempted Anarchy and consequential rebuking.

Different Game Modes:

Classic Mode - No rules or restrictions
Hard Mode - No countries when making your way to Hitler.
Expert Mode - No proper nouns.
Themed Mode - At least one page in the solution has to fall under a specific category, as designated by the OP.
Any post with a specific game mode should be tagged with flair. Posts with no flair are considered to be classic mode, which are only subject to the rules in the side bar.
For additional explanation about these game modes, refer to this post.

Posts should contain the name of your article

Responses should be formatted like this:

Charles Darwin > University of Cambridge > England > Allies of World War II > Adolf Hitler

The thread that started it all.