[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

Sun Apr 30 23:45:20 UTC 2006

On 4/30/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I probably managed to remove a few good link as well, but it was clear
> that there had been almost *zero* edit oral oversight of these links.
>  When we allow articles to have large lists of links without solid
> editorial oversight, we are no more useful than google... and worse:
> we are more subject to manipulation than the authors of the links.
>
> It is my belief that almost every page with more than 10-20 externals
> is in the same position of low to no oversight on the externals, and
> many with more than 5 externals.

A list of pages which I suspect of having low edit-oral-ness (whatever
that is) of their external links is now available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/externalmania

The page doubles as a browser stress test. Enjoy.