On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:42 AM, nsk nsk@karastathis.org wrote:
I read Wikipedia a lot and I always enjoy clicking on date/year links, or using popups on them, because I am interested to place the information I read within a historical context, which is rarely provided by the article text.
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However, delinking dates and years, or only allowing links directly relevant to the context,
If you want almost everything linked then you want something that could be accomplished by machine. Better to run some userscript that autolinks dates/etc than to fill the article with low value links: The machine linking can do it with perfect consistency and does not require per-article effort to maintain, while the manual linking allows the identification of the significant, a task the machine is ill suited for, and preserves the ability for people who do not care for everything being linked to still browse with the most significant links provided.