I believe that this is simply bad WYSIWYG editors at work. - Chris
2009/9/24 Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> > I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist > that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this > Google search for an overview: > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22 > > Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending > .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they > were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least > one printed scientific work using such a link: > http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites > http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm > > On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in > http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf > that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did > this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
