[Wikipedia-l] article length and fragment identifiers/pointers (Re: HTML tag)

Wed Mar 5 14:34:06 UTC 2003

At 07:03 AM 3/5/03 +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> writes:
>
> > As I recall, the primary argument against anchors is that they support
> > and encourage long pages.
>
>Very long pages are bad, but pages up to 20 or 30 KB are perfectly okay
>and there fragment links (#fragment) are very useful.  Short articles
>suffering from the fact that they are often nothing more than a list of
>pointers to other articles (internal and external) ;)
>
>Also they are to easy to edit.  Thus poeple always add stupid lists
>of terms and names to short articles ;-)
>
> > (And of course, very long pages can run afoul of browser limitations,
> > making it impossible for some people to edit them.)
>
>What's a very long article?  We should encourage people to go for proper
>editors.  I'll evaluate Emacs solutions the next weeks.  Any advice?

Yes. Don't tell people they can't use Wikipedia with their current software.

Emacs is many things, but simple it's not. The Wiki software is
*deliberately* easy to use.

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Vicki Rosenzweig
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