Situs

Definition and stakes

Portrait of Aaron Hillel Swartz Aaron Hillel Swartz,  Building for Choice: Allowing Import and Export (2013)

“ This is one of the secrets of success on the Web: the more you send people away, the more they come back. The Web is full of “leaf nodes”—pages that say something interesting, but really don’t link you anywhere further. And leaf nodes are great—they’re the core of the Web in fact—but they’re the end of a journey, not the beginning. When people start their day, or their web browser, they want a page that will take them to a whole bunch of different sites and perspectives, not just try to keep them cooped up in one place. What’s the by-far most popular site on the Internet? ”
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Jacob Riis,  How the Other Half Lives — Chapter XI: The Sweaters of Jewtown

“ These are:
portal, related_author wikipedia, wikispecies, commons, commonscat, wikiquote are typically applied from Wikidata data through interwiki links, or through linking of main subject (P921) so should only be used to override the default wikinews, wiktionary, wikibooks, wikiversity, meta For portal this would generally be added to the root page of a work, rather than added repeatedly for each subpage. Usage on a subpage would be useful where the subpage alone has a relationship with the specified portal, whereas the parent work does not have that relationship.
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