User talk:Tony1/International survey of overlinking

move to meta
Hi, interesting development. As this relates to other projects, and you wish to "outreach", it seems natural that this project should be hosted on "meta". I note with interest that overlink does not exist - that would be a starting point to spread the word. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:24, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * John Vandenberg has kindly offered to organise the setting up of a meta page, pending a name. Please provide feedback on this. Tony   (talk)  12:21, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * John, it will be a few days yet before we have the structure settled and feedback from people. Might ask for comments in a few places after a day or two, when we have the methodology subpage draft in shape. Tony   (talk)  14:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

benchmark articles
I've now added to the proposed list - there are 8 now- it now includes versions across all wikis. The info is now in a transcluded navbox (in my Sandbox for the moment). While I have briefly described the two main criteria of choice in the article, I think it might be an idea to include at least one which has a few featured/good articles in different wikis (if we can find one which fits the main criteria). The only one I have found so far is Chernobyl disaster which I happened to come across. I am sure there are others out there. How can one find out without thumbing through articles one by one? Ohconfucius (talk) 04:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, I just noticed that there are FAs in 11 different wikis for Leonardo Da Vinci (out of 120 articles). Maybe that will be good enough. Julius Caesar has 13 (out of 94 articles). Ohconfucius (talk) 05:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Analysis metric for overlinking
We could use 'links per hundred words' as the metric. This would limit some of the problems of evaluating articles which link to those with very long titles, but would have the disadvantage of understating the visual 'sea of blue'. Ohconfucius (talk) 07:36, 26 May 2009 (UTC)