I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist
that are of the form
http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this
Google search for an overview:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22
Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending
.htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they
were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least
one printed scientific work using such a link:
http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites
http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm
On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in
http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf
that links to
www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did
this
www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist?