“ If we exclude links associated with the "focus sites," then in each namespace, there are 637,654 external links in the main namespace, 5,277 external links in the page namespace, 287,024 external links in the author namespace, and 1,662 external links in the index namespace. This analysis did not look into how many of these links are dead, since that would require visiting each URL individually, which would take a very long time for hundreds of thousands of URLs. However, there is no guarantee that any website on the Internet stays online, and any website can go offline at any time. ”
Summary
“Scriptorium/Archives/2021-12”, is a work by . It explores elements such as links, Wikisource and Farmbrough.
Quotes from Scriptorium/Archives/2021-12 ()
“ That other external links occasionally occur and occasionally break barely rates as an annoyance. But more importantly, no external entity with goals and priorities different from the Wikimedia movement—but who seems happy to spend significant chunks of change paying people to edit the projects, act as their advocates, and developing and running bots—should be allowed to run a bot designed to add the largest possible number of links from Wikimedia projects to their own service. ”
“ Building a pretty (user friendly) frontend to crowd-source and manage that data on Wikidata (or something else Wikibase-based) and integrating with WikiCite for the Wikipedias and integrating tightly with Proofread Page for the Wikisourcen would have great synergies for both communities; and it would put the volunteer effort towards increasing quality rather than mere number of links. The Wikisourcen spend a significant amount of volunteer effort researching, documenting, and managing bibliographic metadata connected to book scans sourced from the IA ”
