Which subdomains are linked to most often as 'external links' in Wikipedia?
Looking for bias in this list is a dangerous activity.
I personally think that the BBC is horribly biased, and so I was alarmed to see how often we link to them, as compared to other sources that may give a more "fair and balanced" perspective (yes, you know what I mean, and yes I'm having fun). HOWEVER, a huge proportion of hte BBC links are from the page *about* the BBC, which links to lots of divisions of the BBC.
Most of the other cases are similar.
Still, I found the list interesting enough to pass along...
us.imdb.com - 519
www.geocities.com - 487
www.imdb.com - 327
www.wikipedia.org - 297
www.bbc.co.uk - 271
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu - 267
www.nytimes.com - 258
www.house.gov - 202
www.guardian.co.uk - 190
dmoz.org - 166
www.ietf.org - 156
www.cnn.com - 149
34sp.eurosong.net - 149
www.google.com - 137
www.nobel-winners.com - 136
www.nobel.se - 132
www.pbs.org - 132
www.meritbadge.com - 121
members.aol.com - 120
quote.wikipedia.org - 119
www.washingtonpost.com - 118
www.ibiblio.org - 117
www.webelements.com - 111
www.yale.edu - 106
www.indianchild.com - 106
www.world-gazetteer.com - 100
www.nps.gov - 99
www.duke.edu - 98
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - 97
environmentalchemistry.com - 97
www.newadvent.org - 96
www.angelfire.com - 91
www.itis.usda.gov - 90
www.amazon.com - 85
www.baseball-reference.com - 83
www.cbc.ca - 83
www.wired.com - 80
www.ethnologue.com - 80
www.heise.de - 80
www.w3.org - 79
members.tripod.com - 78
www.research.att.com - 78
www.history.navy.mil - 78
directory.google.com - 77
slashdot.org - 77
groups.google.com - 76
www.faqs.org - 75
www.fas.org - 75
www.tat.or.th - 75
mathworld.wolfram.com - 73
kanchanapisek.or.th - 73
www.archives.gov - 72
www.whitehouse.gov - 71
www.un.org - 71
www.insecula.com - 70
www.metrodemontreal.com - 70
www.us-israel.org - 66
groups.yahoo.com - 66
www.fishbase.org - 65
wikiquote.org - 62
www.bartleby.com - 62
www.fordham.edu - 61
bioguide.congress.gov - 61
www.gnu.org - 58
www.copsrus.com - 58
www.nsdl.arm.gov - 55
www.epinions.com - 54
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk - 53
ull.chemistry.uakron.edu - 51
www.seds.org - 51
www.plattegronden.nl - 51
www.state.gov - 49
www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com - 49
www.conigliofamily.com - 48
www.salon.com - 48
www.xs4all.nl - 48
www.schoolhouserock.tv - 48
www.time.com - 47
memory.loc.gov - 45
www.zmag.org - 45
www.nlm.nih.gov - 45
www.tsha.utexas.edu - 45
www.cdc.gov - 45
www.defenselink.mil - 45
www.globalsecurity.org - 45
zdnet.com.com - 45
www.adl.org - 43
www.microsoft.com - 43
www.ie.lspace.org - 43
www.snopes.com - 42
www.info.gov.hk - 42
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk - 41
europa.eu.int - 41
www.rfc-editor.org - 41
www.loc.gov - 40
www.apple.com - 40
www.washtimes.com - 40
plato.stanford.edu - 40
scriptures.lds.org - 40
citeseer.nj.nec.com - 40
digital.library.upenn.edu - 39
www.HavenWorks.com - 39
www.nature.com - 39
www.machall.com - 38
www.ccel.org - 37
arxiv.org - 37
www.vatican.va - 37
web.mit.edu - 37
wiktionary.org - 36
news.com.com - 36
etext.lib.virginia.edu - 35
sources.wikipedia.org - 35
www.sdu.nl - 35
foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk - 34
www.allmusic.com - 34
home.earthlink.net - 34
www.nba.com - 34
tisue.net - 34
www.theregister.co.uk - 33
abcnews.go.com - 33
java.sun.com - 33
sunsite.berkeley.edu - 31
www.counterpunch.org - 31
www.religioustolerance.org - 31
biodiversity.uno.edu - 31
www.straightdope.com - 31
www.livius.org - 31
www.abc.net.au - 31
www.crimelibrary.com - 31
www.marxists.org - 30
www.aozora.gr.jp - 30
www.synaptic.bc.ca - 29
www.unicode.org - 29
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com - 29
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk - 29
www.tvtome.com - 29
www.battle.net - 29
www.foxnews.com - 29
www.npr.org - 29
www.ex.ac.uk - 28
www.msnbc.com - 28
www.statistik.admin.ch - 28
www.newscientist.com - 28
story.news.yahoo.com - 28
www.eia.doe.gov - 28
web.archive.org - 28
www.cbsnews.com - 28
earthobservatory.nasa.gov - 28
www.olympic.org - 28
www.sfgate.com - 28
imdb.com - 28
www.astronautix.com - 27
usinfo.state.gov - 27
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au - 27
ourworld.compuserve.com - 27
www.peakware.com - 27
www.pokemondungeon.com - 27
pdreader.org - 26
skepdic.com - 26
education.jlab.org - 26
msdn.microsoft.com - 26
www.mozilla.org - 26
www.shakespeare-literature.com - 26
www.tate.org.uk - 26
www.acmuller.net - 25
www.epa.gov - 25
www.cia.gov - 25
www.egs.edu - 25
edition.cnn.com - 25
sourceforge.net - 25
www.sacred-texts.com - 25
mozillaquest.com - 25
www.grida.no - 24
www.lysator.liu.se - 24
www.rcsb.org - 24
www.usatoday.com - 24
www.sff.net - 24
www.census.gov - 24
www.mapquest.com - 24
www.klov.com - 23
www.hrw.org - 23
www-aus.cricket.org - 23
www.kuro5hin.org - 23
www.mfa.gov.il - 23
www.travelchinaguide.com - 23
www.kirjasto.sci.fi - 23
www.thrale.com - 23
www.artcyclopedia.com - 23
www.stanford.edu - 23
www.rootsweb.com - 23
www.math.miami.edu - 23
biz.yahoo.com - 23
www.hku.hk - 23
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk - 22
lcweb2.loc.gov - 22
en.wikipedia.org - 22
www.telegraph.co.uk - 22
www.cl.cam.ac.uk - 22
www.disinfopedia.org - 22
www.idf.il - 22
www.btinternet.com - 22
www.ebible.org - 22
lwn.net - 22
www.theatlantic.com - 21
www.usdoj.gov - 21
www.omniglot.com - 21
home.att.net - 21
www.jsc.nasa.gov - 21
www.globeandmail.com - 21
classics.mit.edu - 20
www.columbia.edu - 20
www.adherents.com - 20
www.eff.org - 20
media.guardian.co.uk - 20
www.senate.gov - 20
www.biblegateway.com - 20
www.maintour.com - 20
primes.utm.edu - 20
www.pitt.edu - 20
www.amorc.org - 20
www.newsfactor.com - 20
Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com writes:
I personally think that the BBC is horribly biased,
Right-o, Jimbo. I'll see to it that the two most senior managers resign forthwith.
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Which subdomains are linked to most often as 'external links' in Wikipedia?
Looking for bias in this list is a dangerous activity.
I feel a useful, if not particularly exciting, Wikipedia task is to periodically check these links, to verify that they still work, that they offer useful material, etc.
I personally think that the BBC is horribly biased, and so I was alarmed to see how often we link to them, as compared to other sources that may give a more "fair and balanced" perspective (yes, you know what I mean, and yes I'm having fun).
I didn't know Al Franken had a web page.
More seriously, I guess this preference of links to news sites with a center to left POV reflects the interests & nature of the WP community. All of my links to news sites have been to my local newspaper, which historically presents a Republican POV (although it has been gradually drifting to the left relative to the rest of the media).
HOWEVER, a huge proportion ofhte BBC links are from the page *about* the BBC, which links to lots of divisions of the BBC.
Most of the other cases are similar.
One catagory that surprised me was the number of external links back to Wikipedia. Surely most of them can be modified to a simple hyperlink.
I wasn't surprised at the number of links to the Internet Movie Database, though; variations on its URL make it the first & third most linked site. However, having used it frequently over the years (since it was nothing more than a collection of perl scripts on a server in Wales), I know that as a resource it is thin in facts as compared to WP currently, & even admitting many of our articles need work.
Geoff
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Which subdomains are linked to most often as 'external links' in Wikipedia?
us.imdb.com - 519 www.geocities.com - 487 www.imdb.com - 327
[etc.]
How is this list generated? Is it the actual number of external links, or is it the number of articles that contain at least one external link to that site?
The reason I'm asking is that your list goes all the way back down to only 20 links, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveJournal contains roundabout 40 links to www.livejournal.com.
So either there's something wrong with the list, or I'm missing something here ...
Timwi