Hi, What are the implied rules of creating hyperlinks?
Let's assume I am reading the page....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MandrakeSoft
I have understood 2 things about links... 1) Red links don't contain any text. 2) External links are marked (a convention, I wish all websites should follow)
But I completely fail to understand why certain words are hyperlinked. For e.g. in the following para why does the date January 27 is linked? I clicked on that date and could not find anything related to the current page i.e. MandrakeSoft.
MandrakeSoft operated under bankruptcy protection from [[January 27]], [[2003]] to [[March 30]], [[2004]]. Despite its efforts to cut losses and improve profits, MandrakeSoft was forced to file for protection due to a series of quarterly losses.
Too much (and mostly unnecessary) hyperlinks makes me shy away from using wiki.
Thanks Shantanu Oak
On Sep 26, 2004, at 9:05 PM, shantanu oak wrote:
What are the implied rules of creating hyperlinks?
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But I completely fail to understand why certain words are hyperlinked. For e.g. in the following para why does the date January 27 is linked?
It's linked because someone put brackets around the text. This is explicit, not implicit, linking.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
This is also for people that want different date formats, for me it reads:
"MandrakeSoft operated under bankruptcy protection from 2003-01-27 to 2004-03-30."
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:35:09 +0530, shantanu oak shantanu.oak@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, What are the implied rules of creating hyperlinks?
Let's assume I am reading the page....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MandrakeSoft
I have understood 2 things about links...
- Red links don't contain any text.
- External links are marked (a convention, I wish all websites should follow)
But I completely fail to understand why certain words are hyperlinked. For e.g. in the following para why does the date January 27 is linked? I clicked on that date and could not find anything related to the current page i.e. MandrakeSoft.
MandrakeSoft operated under bankruptcy protection from [[January 27]], [[2003]] to [[March 30]], [[2004]]. Despite its efforts to cut losses and improve profits, MandrakeSoft was forced to file for protection due to a series of quarterly losses.
Too much (and mostly unnecessary) hyperlinks makes me shy away from using wiki.
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