I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this Google search for an overview: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22
Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least one printed scientific work using such a link: http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm
On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist?
I believe that this is simply bad WYSIWYG editors at work.
- Chris
2009/9/24 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs
I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this Google search for an overview: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22
Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least one printed scientific work using such a link: http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm
On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist?
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this Google search for an overview: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22
Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least one printed scientific work using such a link: http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm
On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist?
Issues like this do suggest that it would be nice if the noarticletext message had a way of making "did you mean" style guesses for common problem like this.
-Robert Rohde
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