On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Carl (CBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course there are good external links, but they > are a minority on the articles I follow. Examples include these > removals: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scala_%28programming_language%29&diff=prev&oldid=489800521 > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HUD_%28video_gaming%29&diff=prev&oldid=487559372
I actually find your examples amusing. The HUD link was one of the ones I was seriously considering not restoring because it was a junk link; while I was especially disappointed to see that the Scala editors did not restore the link for what is not just their standard IDE, but a major reason for use of their language, an examplar of their close alliance/fusion with Java, and a vital resource to link especially given how impoverished the external links section was. (And I've never written a line of Scala in my life!) > Separately, the median number of watchlisters for the 100 pages you > edited is 5. Where is this figure coming from? > And we have no way to get the names of the watchlisters > to see whether they are active. So for many of the pages, it seems > plausible nobody even noticed that the link was removed. That is a > separate issue unrelated to links. If the community "exists" but is inactive, that's as bad as it not existing. Wikipedia is as Wikipedia does. Either way, the test is revealing. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
