Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

What *would* be cool, and might just be a different implementation of exactly what you have in mind, would be a tool to find all the (reasonably short) click-paths between any two concepts. I mean, now that I selected the article titles randomly, I actually wonder how many clicks it takes to get from Marie Antionette to Michael Jordan. And what's intervening?

Basically, this doesn't need a special type of "influence map", but rather just an analysis of existing links.

Check out [[Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia]]. It's just for fun, and we'd have to create a specific search function to do it automatically, but that's basically what you're talking about.

--Michael Snow