On 7 Oct 2007 at 19:27, "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Therefore: stick around two years and you're an institution.
Or belong in one, at least.
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Thanks to Eugene and Rolf for looking into this.
Charles
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I just stumbled about an link to a disambig page and thought "there
should be a tool to fix this here and now". I haven't heard of one
before, so I wrote one.
Full description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Magnus_Manske/fixdisambig.js
Basically, when you follow a link and end on a disambig page, select
the text of the link it /should/ have linked to, and click on a
sidebar link (or click on the sidebar link and enter link text
manually).
The script will edit the page /you just came from/, replace the
link(s), and show you the diff. Click "save page", and you're done!
Cheers,
Magnus
On 4 Oct 2007 at 18:21:07 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > I think that he rejects the notion of using obituaries in BLP's. ;-)
>
> With the exception of some of the entries in
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries> :)
I'm not sure any obituary that gets wrong the basic fact of whether
the person being written about is alive or dead is much of a reliable
source for other facts.
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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2007/10/prone_to_error.h…
Quality of the support. Who or what actually backs up the source? Is
the person a figure of credibility? Does the person verifying the
source have an interest in the statement? Have reliable reference
works been cited? Better not mention Wikipedia.
Copy editors as well as reporters live by the motto of the Chicago's
City News Bureau: IF YOUR MOTHER SAYS SHE LOVES YOU, CHECK IT OUT.
Tom French, a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times with a national
reputation, makes it his practice to go over the final draft of each
story he writers, marking each statement of fact and confirming to his
own satisfaction that he can vouch for the accuracy of each one.
- d.
"Charlotte Webb" wrote
> As for the actual number, I'm willing to make an unscientific guess of
> half a million, maybe more. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's one per four articles. On the low side. I've just written that there are more redirects than articles. Any chance of that being true? My gut feeling is that with 2 million articles, 10 million pages, there must be millions of redirects in there to make up the numbers. Any pie chart?
Charles
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On 4 Oct 2007 at 23:09:51 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > The negative impact, perhaps... but even that incompletely: Web
> > searches don't normally take people to non-existent pages.
> >
> > There is also a positive impact from some deletion, but thats harder to measure.
>
> Just count all the times the nonexistent pages aren't visited. Easy-peasy.
While at my browser I did stare
I saw a page that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh how I wish it'd go away.
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