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