On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:09:59PM -0400, The Cunctator wrote:
One of the nice things about the fact that we're building a hyperlinked site is that we, the individual human contributors, don't have to worry or even think at all about the question of relevance. The system will deal with that. All we have to worry about is article quality.
Well said. The number of incoming links will always be the best indicator of relevance, even better than any "relevance rating". (Can you say Google? :-)) Having said that, I do share the concern with many people that if newcomers see a lot of trivial/personal stuff they will start adding their own and even add links to it from pages that are relevant. But I think and hope that having a clear mission statement plus the usual "social pressure" will keep people from adding such links. For example, if people start adding their own name to the list of mathamaticians because they have a degree in mathematics then this is not so much irrelevant as it is simply wrong because it is a list of *famous* mathematicians.
-- Jan Hidders