Comments on: The dangers of hypertext, wikis and overlapping jargon

By: dan

dan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

And I think some of the hyperlinking between entries a bit spurious. Maybe that’s what was worrying me. When someone alludes to “two opposing traditions” on this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

I thought they would link to a page describing them. Not a definition of what tradition means. Which is essentially useless.

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, most of the links on wikipedia are fairly irrelevant to the page you’re actually reading, and just take you off on a wild tangent.

I think it’s a common mistake to think that having lots of inline hyperlinks is a good thing. Much better to have a few that are relevant - and sometimes it’s better to only see them at the end.