How One Small Change Broke Wikipedia's First Link Rule

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What happens when you follow the first link on wikipedia pages to its end? I tried to find out and regretted the resulting headache.

I had to cut out a lot of details due to time/pacing but if there is something that interested you in terms of how I gathered data or whatever, feel free to ask.

The wikipedia first link network featured in the video is on github:
https://github.com/notDavidsGit/WikiF...

Chapters:
0:00 Trying to get a wikipedia page
1:45 Getting the data/ Rules
3:50 Do all wiki pages lead to philosophy?
7:58 The big loop/ What's special about philosophy?
11:46 Results
12:32 Someone broke the philosophy game
16:47 The second link network


Non-public domain Image credits:
14:35 and 14:54 By Sorens (talk) / Julia Sorenson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New..., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...


Music (in order):
Not David Spotify playlist featuring artists below and others:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MC...

Killer Vacation - Chris Doerksen https://open.spotify.com/artist/1xnlf...

Fate - Seimuc
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kQxw...

Native - HOME
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2exeb...

Noche De Lujo - Stux.io and Vaporwavez
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OmqY...

Above All - HOME
(see link above)

Intermission - Stux.io and Vaporwavez https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OmqY...

Sure Thing - Chris Doerksen
(see link above)

Broken Drum Machine - Godmode (YouTube audio library)

Sunrise in Paris - Dan Henig (YouTube audio library)

Forward - Seimuc
(see link above)

RPG Store - Chris Doerksen
(see link above)