[WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck?

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Samuel Klein wrote:
>> A feature to improve the curating and presentation of these links
>> might be handy.  We have a few places were having a  "set of links" as
>> a first class member of the wikiverse would be useful
>>  * external links or further reading
>>  * a list of images related to an article (which may not all fit
>> neatly in the article)
>>  * interlanguage and interproject links to a set of articles about the
>> same topic
>>
> On the final point, the "poster" style of interwiki link to sister
> projects begins to look dated, at least to me. It obviously doesn't
> scale well; or in other words it puts the onus on the project linked to,
> to organise the material relevant to one WP topic, in such a way that a
> single link can carry the whole weight. Innovation is at least possible.

That's an interesting point. I presume you mean wikisource here. For
Commons and Wikiquote (I'm unsure about the other projects) it is
fairly easy to have a corresponding page or category or both. If the
Wikipedia article is a person who is an author, then a wikisource page
is possible, and if the Wikipedia page is about a book or other
published work that could be on wikisource, then again a single link,
page or category is usually possible. But there are some articles
where this system does fall down. I presume the place to put links to
editorially selected wikisource pages would be in the external links,
or as a courtesy link in a citation.

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