All, I also wanted to show you these guidelines for Links subpages:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Links You can discuss either on the forums or on the talk page. I think that ultimately, a really successful collection of Links pages would constitute a very useful Web directory, with three advantages over previous directories: (1) links would have been chosen for quality first and foremost, and ultimately vetted by experts, (2) it will be very easy to prevent "link spam" given the way our community is set up, and (3) the links would be filed under an ever-expanding, very fine-grained category scheme. The result could be used by search engines, via various algorithms, to drive the selection of higher-quality search results. The result, one hopes, is that the highest-quality results would be more likely to float to the top of search results. This is what I argued in a keynote delivered at the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges Annual Meeting, Reed College, June 13, 2007. Here's the text: http://www.citizendium.org/netcruft.html What should we do about Internet "cruft"? Toward knowledge-rich websites Hope you like it. --Larry P.S. We just removed the "nofollow" attribute from our external links. I hadn't even known they were there. CZ won't have the link spam problem Wikipedia has, so we can reward reliable websites--the only kind we'll link to--with traffic and, in time, higher pageranks. _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
