On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I actually find your examples amusing. The HUD link was one of the
ones I was seriously considering not restoring because it was a junk
link; while I was especially disappointed to see that the Scala
editors did not restore the link for what is not just their standard
IDE, but a major reason for use of their language, an examplar of
their close alliance/fusion with Java, and a vital resource to link
especially given how impoverished the external links section was. (And
I've never written a line of Scala in my life!)
Separately, the median number of watchlisters for the
100 pages you
edited is 5.
Where is this figure coming from?
And we have no way to get the names of the
watchlisters
to see whether they are active. So for many of the pages, it seems
plausible nobody even noticed that the link was removed. That is a
separate issue unrelated to links.
If the community "exists" but is inactive, that's as bad as it not
existing. Wikipedia is as Wikipedia does. Either way, the test is
revealing.
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