Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Linking to particular article?

[Christopher Mahan]

I agree, this should be done. But what happens when, to follow the example 
below, I want to focus on an article dealing with Thomas Jefferson's 
paricipation in a certain event, rather than linking to the 300 articles 
that might reference Thomas Jefferson.

if I could refer to an article by ID, such as
 <link_article>
   <article_ID>L768459</article_ID>
   <article_ref>Thomas Jefferson and the signing of the Declaration
     of Independance</article_ref>
 </link_article>
and the article is later removed, edited, or else, then the reference, in 
this case L768459 can point to the new article, and I don't lose the 
reference.

I thinkk this is really important for very broad subjects, such as "Imperial 
Rome" or, "United States Foreign Policy"




----Original Message Follows----
From: Jimmy Wales <address@hidden>
To: Christopher Mahan <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Linking to particular article?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:31:47 -0600

One solution, and one that we are pursuing already, is to use XML to markup
the links in a semi-automated fashion.  For example, I can link to
<name>Thomas Jefferson</name>, and if an article by that title exists,
then a link is automatically generated.

In this way, authors can (more or less) pre-link to articles that don't
even exist yet.  And if an article were to go away for some reason, then
the link would not appear in the article, but the information making the
link possible in the future doesn't get lost.

I think this is a powerful solution.



Christopher Mahan wrote:

> If this is the case, what happens when articles that were linked to are
> removed, do we end up with "bad links" just like on the web? Could the
> authors of the articles that link to the doomed article be notified?
> Does this mean that an author would be also maintaining his/her article?
>
> This I feel would be a burden on authors.
>
> My solution would be that articles that are linked to should not be 
removed,
> but placed in the "Seldom Used" database/folder/storage.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Linking to particular article?
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:31:37 -0000
>
> On 22 Jan 2001, at 18:00, Christopher Mahan wrote:
>
>  > Could the author of an article easily link to another article by
>  > reference number, for example, so as to allow for "hyperlinks" within
>  > the encyclopedia, independent of the search capability?
>
> Yes. I don't think anyones would oppose such a system of linking ,
> so I think it can be taken as an assumed capability.
>
> Imran
>
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