wikipedia's internal links

[ritaxis]

I'm reading along about baroques architecture in Poland (do you need to ask?) and there is the statement that baroque furniture was often made of tilla wood. I didn't recall ever having seen that term before, s I clicked the link on the word . . . and found myself looking at an article about a satellite.

I googled tilla wood and found a wikipedia entry about it, not, of course, reachable from the link about it in the first artcle (actually maybe the 20th. I think I have set up the house where Yanek spent his childhood all wrong. But I can fix that, I think)

There are a lot of stupid internal liks in wikipedia articles but that's pretty dumb even in context.

Comments

[zeborah]

I could go into a long dissertation about how that probably happened, but suffice to say that disambiguation is funtimes.

Well, the spelling error probably didn't help - looks like the wood should be spelled "tilia". Have fixed the spelling and link now.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Your efforts are what make Wikipedia the place where people go to do their research.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you. I thought to do something, but though I have a wikipedia account, I can never remember my password or the procedure for editing.

Of course, today, I couldn't anyway, due to the anti-SOPA protest blackout.

edit: it appears that the blackout won't begin for a few hours yet.