Tony Sidaway wrote:
Both version suffer from overwikification-nearly all of the sentences contain wikilinked words. I've spoken to a few people about Wikipedia and most of them report that a sentence with wikilinks is much harder to read than a sentence without. This matches my own experience.
I've actually found the opposite, so long as the wikilinks are judiciously placed, and not just on all words. I tend to use wikilinks to help me skim sentences for the important subjects they refer to. They are particularly useful for that purpose in mathematical articles, where they usually mark technical terms being used in their technical sense (and the link is useful to quickly look up the definition if I'm unfamiliar with it).
-Mark