XKCD and Wikipedia crawling

[handslive]

In the alt-text for this XKCD, Randall suggests that following the first content related link (ie not in italics and not in parentheses) on any Wikipedia post will lead you inevitably to philosophy.  Naturally, I had to try this, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  Once you hit mathematics, the links lead the reader in a circle that comes back to

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[hobbitbabe]

I keep getting onto the Mathematics -- property(philosophy) trail.

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[the_same_andrew]

I thought he (Randall Monroe, that is) was making a joke of the "Made you look!" type.

"I'll be damned if I fall for that shit," thought I.

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[handslive]

Ok, I'll buy that. I took it for an "all topics are eventually meta" kind of joke.

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[hobbitbabe]

It's completely credible because of the encyclopedia style convention that all entries start with a statement like "X: X is a subset or feature of Y".