[WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

[Charles Matthews]

On 04/04/2011 12:56, Carcharoth wrote:
> So is there anyway to encourage or help with whatever needs to be done here?
>
Have a look at [[Template:Protected Areas of Massachusetts]], for 
example. This nearly doubled in size early in 2011, with a couple of 
hundred red links added.

What we have here is "quadratic": if it is assumed all those redlinks 
are articles that will get added (there may be no reason why not), and 
that this footer is added to all those articles, the linkage created 
grows as the square of the number of links. So a footer with a 1001 
links implies a million wikilinks.

It would be sensible to have a guideline that says "break down footers 
that have many links", to reduce the effect.

Charles