Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Charles Matthews
Carcharoth wrote: snip I seem to have let my keyboard run away with me there. Sorry! :-) It is interesting, though, to speculate whether there is a mature dynamic that is or should be taking over. There would be a few different sides: - (focus on metrics) Article count - average length -

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Magnus Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award PS. The one thing I'm very bad at:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award PPS. Someone told me, months ago, how to set things up so that disambiguation page links show up in a different colour to ordinary links (plus redirects showing up

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Magnus Manske
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award PPS. Someone told me, months ago, how to set things up so that disambiguation page

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-04 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Insufficient. Being rude isn't going to win converts to the cause. You're making a highly disingenuous request. Professionals who want the pictures removed don't claim it's because of money. They give other reasons, which have already been repeated.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Emily Monroe
The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't pollute what links here. I personally like navboxes. I usually use what links here to check if an article is orphaned or not. What do you use it for? Emily On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Carcharoth wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote: The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't pollute what links here. I personally like navboxes. I usually use what links here to check if an article is orphaned or not. What do you use it for? To see what

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread David Goodman
High time we left these off the whatlinkshere page, if technically feasible. It would be the first step towards presenting the page in a usable fashion, such as alphabetically. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Emily Monroe
Consider the case where the *only* links in what links here are due to being in a navbox template. The article would appear to be linked from many articles, but it would not be linked from anywhere (or very few places) in *real* text in other articles. Now do you see the problem I'm getting

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/4 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: In other words, I like using what links here to find out when something is mentioned in the article *text*, rather than when it is merely mentioned in a navbox template. One of the problems though is that links from an *infobox* are more

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

2009-08-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: 2009/8/4 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: In other words, I like using what links here to find out when something is mentioned in the article *text*, rather than when it is merely mentioned in a navbox