On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:42 AM, nsk <nsk(a)karastathis.org> wrote:
I read Wikipedia a lot and I always enjoy clicking on
date/year links,
or using popups on them, because I am interested to place the
information I read within a historical context, which is rarely provided
by the article text.
[snip]
However, delinking dates and years, or only allowing
links directly
relevant to the context,
If you want almost everything linked then you want something that
could be accomplished by machine. Better to run some userscript that
autolinks dates/etc than to fill the article with low value links: The
machine linking can do it with perfect consistency and does not
require per-article effort to maintain, while the manual linking
allows the identification of the significant, a task the machine is
ill suited for, and preserves the ability for people who do not care
for everything being linked to still browse with the most significant
links provided.