[Wikipedia-l] article length and fragment identifiers/pointers (Re: HTML tag)

[Pedro M.V.]

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From: "Vicki Rosenzweig" <vr at redbird.org>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] article length and fragment identifiers/pointers (Re: HTML tag)


> At 07:03 AM 3/5/03 +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> >Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> writes:
> >
> > > As I recall, the primary argument against anchors is that they support
> > > and encourage long pages.
> >
> >Very long pages are bad, but pages up to 20 or 30 KB are perfectly okay
> >and there fragment links (#fragment) are very useful.  Short articles
> >suffering from the fact that they are often nothing more than a list of
> >pointers to other articles (internal and external) ;)
> >
The point is fragment links drive the user to the desired part of the article. You only perhaps need read a little bit of the little article ( 2 or 3 lines ) to obtain a system idea of something that is in various articles. The reusability argument is important.

Regards.