discuss: Wikipedia articles on the LDP
Subject:
Re: Wikipedia articles on the LDP
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
30 Jan 2002 01:42:24 -0000
Message-Id: <20020130023332.GF24676@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:05:01PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:22:23AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:00:50AM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:10:34PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:31:30AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > > > and my code resolves those to be links to the correct urls. Now what
> > > > I'm going to do with the Wikipedia articles is first select a set of
> > > > what I consider to be good articles for the LDP, and then do an
> > > > automatic update that looks at all of our WikiText documents, sees
> > > > which Wikipedia articles they link to, and mirrors them. All nice and
> > > > automagic, the way I like things.
> > >
> > > If there are a lot of links, and you follow the links recursively then
> > > you may wind up with a very large number of files, many of which could
> > > be of poor quality.
> >
> > What do you mean by "you follow the links"? You mean the reader
> > follows the links?
>
> You were going to read the links and then copy the target of each link to
> LDP (mirror them). But what if what you copy also has links in it? Will you
> mirror those too? And so on recursively. Since you seem to be
> restriction the mirroring to Wikipedia I guess it will not be too much
> stuff.
Ah. No, I'm not going to "follow the links". That would suck up whole
megabytes of information, and I don't want to do that. Only articles
specifically cited, or articles handpicked for their relevance and
quality.
--
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