All, I am off to Europe (Sweden and Paris) next week...be good (i.e., productive)!
There are a few different active people who are not in the habit of adding a lot of links in articles, or they add links only when the links won't show up as red (they will link only to existent articles). This is, I think, definitely a problem. It is absolutely crucial that we link copiously to articles that do not exist. Why? Because many contributors, and most people who are attracted to join CZ, are intrigued and motivated by those little red links. Clicking through and starting a new article is how the wiki web is built. This is one of the bedrock, best-understood principles of a wiki, one of the things that makes any wiki work, and if we reject it, we're basically declaring defeat. Yep, it's that important. Put another way, a page without a lot of red links is curiously depressing: it is like a declaration that we have given up on having articles on all of those other topics on which we do not now have articles. So I have a proposal (which needs no approval from anyone). Somebody could start a little project, listing all the most-linked-to articles that do not themselves have enough outbound links. Then, that person could invite people to start linkifying those not-linked-enough articles. More generally, I wish we would get into the habit of adding copious links to articles other people have started, when they haven't added enough relevant links themselves. Any further discussion here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1767.0.html --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
