On 25/07/07, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Andrew Cates wrote:
> Who does the footers at en?
> It would seem more sensible for the word "charity" on every page to link
> to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization rather than to a
> disambiguation page and its a bit rubbishy putting "non-profit charity"
> as two separate tautologous links and would be better without the
> non-profit one at all.
Looking at it, I notice many more problems with it
than just those. The
entire footer is a disorganised jumble of:
(a) links to other websites (e.g.
wikimediafoundation.org),
(b) links to information _about_ Wikipedia (e.g. Wikipedia:About), and
(c) links to actual _articles_ (such as [[charitable organization]]).
I believe that out of those, the category (c) links are the least
useful. Not because I think the article is useless or anything, but
because the information linked to is not specific to Wikipedia or
Wikimedia, but the user would expect that. Someone added these links
gratuitously just because they can. It's bad design.
The current footer was edited by me based on ComCom discussion. If
some of the articles are disambigs, yes, that should be fixed ... The
essential point was to bludgeon home the "this is done by a charity"
thing.
Any admin can change it, though changes take a few hours to percolate
down through all the layers of caching.
- d.