On 11/3/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
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Walter van Kalken wrote:
The consequent of this for Wikipedia culture is that it doesn't link enough.
It doesn't link enough??? IMHO opinion it links much to MUCH. Some artcles of maybe 1 A4 length contain over a 100 external links in the english wikipedia. Which is something I call madness. I certainly would not want to encourage people to go linking even more. On some subjects we have more links than the DMOZ project. And we are not google or DMOZ are we?
As a sidenote to this, someone (NullC? Eloquence?) is planning to run a bot to poll archive.org for all the external links on en: and subsuently replace all external links with links to the archive.org copies...
Alphax | /"\
It's NullC; I've pushed and prodded him while chatting on IRC, and he mass-submitted the links in his offline mirror. And I'm afraid you've got it a little mixed up- (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marudubshinki/Wikipedia_wish_list#Better_c...) the idea is not to replace the current direct links, but to supplement them. So far we are still stuck on format; how do you add the archived link to existing external links in a clear, automatable, compact and comprehensible way? I've got a few possibilities in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marudubshinki/Linktest but none really satisfy me, and none of them have gotten too much support from people in IRC who've taken a look.
~Maru