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Sep 25, 2009, 12:34 PM
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Re: Links to Wikipedia with .htm at the end
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk[at]eunet.rs> wrote:
> I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist
> that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this
> Google search for an overview:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22
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> Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending
> .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they
> were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least
> one printed scientific work using such a link:
> http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites
> http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm
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> On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in
> http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf
> that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did
> this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist?
Issues like this do suggest that it would be nice if the noarticletext
message had a way of making "did you mean" style guesses for common
problem like this.
-Robert Rohde
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