Talk:Link transit: Difference between revisions
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:::A serious [[encyclopedia]] or any [[journal]] would care which pages were reviewed, and which were reviewed from which others, and how often, and what connections were of interest to readers. It's kind of embarassing to have to say that out loud. | :::A serious [[encyclopedia]] or any [[journal]] would care which pages were reviewed, and which were reviewed from which others, and how often, and what connections were of interest to readers. It's kind of embarassing to have to say that out loud. | ||
::::Of course we care about review, but wouldn't that be better served by popularity data than link transit data? What would you do with link transit information? How do you "elaborate" a link? The best use of it I can think of is to pick a small set of related articles, and draw pretty graph pictures. A noble goal, to be sure, but it would require a change to the program below to generate such data efficiently. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 06:30, 6 Sep 2004 (EEST) | ::::Of course we care about review, | ||
:::::[[Trolls]] doubt that very much. | |||
::::but wouldn't that be better served by popularity data than link transit data? | |||
::::::Restoring the information about page popularity is also quite useful. But more useful is information about paths between, i.e. that the single most popular path was for instance [[Wikipedia]] -> [[sysop vandalism]] -> [[Wikimedia]] -> [[tabloid journalism]] would demonstrate that people actually had understood the subjects correctly and went to the next most logical page to learn about the nature of each beast, while a path from [[Robert Kaiser]] -> [[Nazipedia]] -> [[Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Zionism]] would perhaps indicate a quite confused person who was pretty much being subjected to a pile of [[propaganda]] | |||
::::What would you do with link transit information? How do you "elaborate" a link? The best use of it I can think of is to pick a small set of related articles, and draw pretty graph pictures. A noble goal, to be sure, but it would require a change to the program below to generate such data efficiently. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 06:30, 6 Sep 2004 (EEST) | |||
:::::Pictures aren't really the point. What if one were able to simply see the number of times that a link was transited in the past month, as a superscripted number ("exponent") on that link? Then it would just fit in the regular page display. It would give some idea of the typical paths followed through pages. | :::::Pictures aren't really the point. What if one were able to simply see the number of times that a link was transited in the past month, as a superscripted number ("exponent") on that link? Then it would just fit in the regular page display. It would give some idea of the typical paths followed through pages. | ||