User:Jakob Hanke

Just getting started.

Ideas for which I haven't found the right place to propose them yet (if anyone reads this, thanks for letting me know if this already exists or where and how I can submit them):

-Visible links on the main Wikipedia page to article statistics

-A new ranking: Rank articles by number of internal links from other articles leading to a given article. This is important because it would help

1.to analyze which concepts prevail and/or are important for the understanding of other concepts in a given language; and by comparing with higher-ranked articles in other languages it would help

2. to see which articles will bring the biggest "added-value" when improved.

The length of an article, its number of views, changes or even of citations are not accurate ways to assess its importance because news of events like e.g. the death of Lady Diana or Michael Jackson, often get more attention from more writers than systematical approaches to the history of monarchy or of pop music. The number of internal Wikipedia-links leading to a given article by contrast is a much more reliable indicator. Therefore, if a given article ranks high in cross-article links, corrections and enhancements will have a huge overall effect, as every improvement to it will contribute to a better understanding of all the other articles which are referring to it.

Internal links are one of Wikipedia's biggest advantages - let's build up on this and use them in new ways to analyze interconnections.