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)


This matters because I need to know what the output format should be, and I need to have some way to justify using server resources to generate such data.  
This matters because I need to know what the output format should be, and I need to have some way to justify using server resources to generate such data.  
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