Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leila Zia Sent: Monday, 26 June 2017 11:48 PM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot Hi James, On Mon, Jun 26, 2017

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

On 06/26/2017 04:43 PM, Mark J. Nelson wrote: James Salsman writes: Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects? There've been a few studies over the years, but none of the ones I know of are recent. One from 2011 that

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

James Salsman writes: > Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable > on Wikipedia projects? There've been a few studies over the years, but none of the ones I know of are recent. One from 2011 that may nonetheless be interesting is: P. Tzekou, S.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

Hi James, On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, James Salsman wrote: > > Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable > on Wikipedia projects? > > I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited > in the introductions of L1-vital

[Wiki-research-l] link rot

Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects? I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited in the introductions of L1-vital enwiki health and social science articles I sampled were good, and that's only counting those which