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[edit] Format
07-Jan-2008: The years 1900-1999 got a condensed Table of Contents after 28May07. See Talk:1950#Format (and "Talk:1950#Condensed TOC"). Many year-articles were hacked into random formats again by December 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 00:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reduced Wikipedia overlink crisis
- 07-Jan-2008: Excessive wikilinking in articles during 2007 led to the "Wikipedia overlink crisis" (or megalink crisis), primarily by wikilinking every word in infoboxes or navboxes. Some navboxes were omitted to avoid generating several hundred wikilinks per yearly article:
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- Template:Month3 - (used 38 links) all 12 monthly-calendars generated ~385 wikilinks;
- Template:Events_by_month - generated 133 links per year.
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- Avoiding those navbox templates, linked instead as see-also articles, reduced the overlinking by more than 500 links, per yearly-article. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Issues dated 2004
There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.
For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed add).
Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.
Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically).
talk--BozMo 13:36, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Removed:
- June 4 - Noemi Dominguez, a Houston, Texas schoolteacher, is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She was his sixth victim in his fifth incident.
- June 4 - Josephine Konvicka was murdered in a barn in Fayette County, Texas by Angel Maturino Resendiz. The barn is very close to Weimar, where Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic were murdered by the same serial killer. Josephine was his seventh victim in his sixth incident.
- June 15 - George Morber Senior and his grown daughter Carolyn Frederick are murdered in Gorham, Illinois by Angel Maturino Resendiz. They were his eighth and ninth victims in his seventh and final incident.
See Talk:June 4. --mav 06:39, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Issues after 2005
[edit] disambiguation
Why is there no disambiguation page for this? I was looking for 1999, the Japanese Nintendo game, but 1999 the Prince song is also a legitimate contender. WTF? --67.42.33.65 07:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] *October 31 - Nerf Arena Blast is released by Atari, Inc. and Visionary Media, Inc.
Why is that one on the list? The page for the game doesn't seem to warrant too much importance.
[edit] "MCMXCIX"
Isn't 1999 IMM (1 before 1000+1000) not MCMXCIX? I always thought it was. Just curious. 4myself4 (Come see my guestbook) 01:49, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think it should be MIM, in analogy with XIX (twenty). LarRan 13:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Euro
On this page on January 1 it says the Euro was introduced. It also says the exact same thing on the year 2000. Im not sure which is correct so can somebody please clear this up?--WickedWitchoftheWest 10:20, 06 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 4. July
- Nebra skydisk discovered
[edit] Wikipedia overlink crisis
07-Jan-2008: Excessive wikilinking in articles during 2007 led to the "Wikipedia overlink crisis" (or megalink crisis), primarily by wikilinking every word in infoboxes or navboxes. For the yearly-articles, overlinking began with the "Year in other calendars" linking to 25 cultural calendars, as 25 * 2500 articles = 62_500 wikilinks, because the other-calendars infobox did not link to a 2nd-level overall "calendars" article which, only there, would link those 25 other-calendars. Deferring links into a sub-article would reduce the year-article links from 62500 back to one link per year, or only 2500 links total. Other navboxes also generated many wikilinks per article:
- Template:C20YearInTopic - has 43 links, yet often used to switch topics (as "1965_in_sports");
- Template:Month3 - (has 38 links) using 12 monthly-calendars generated about 385 wikilinks;
- Template:Events_by_month - generated 133 links per year.
Repeating the monthly-calendars, plus the events-months navbox, added 518 (385+133) links per year, or almost 12 times the number of wikilinks used to switch to other year-topic articles (12 ~= 518/43 = 12.05). Again, if only those other navboxes could have been deferred to 2nd-level articles by linking as standard see-also entries, such as see: "Table of events by month" or as see calendar: "Common year starting on Friday". Such links under the see-also section would propagate 2 total links, not 518.
The Wikipedia page-link database(s) are not always 100% in sync with current editing; however, clicking on "What links here" attempts to update page-link data about cross-references (or concordance) between linked wiki pages. For example, if an infobox template were changed to not link "city"/"county" (etc.), unlinking 50 such words, across 2500 articles, would cause Wikipedia servers (after a few minutes) to pause a while to update page-link database(s), to drop those 50*2500 = 125,000 wikilinks (omitted) when displaying "What links here". Referring to the general problem as the megalink crisis reflects the widespread use of large navboxes in over 40,000 Wikipedia articles, thereby generating many millions of overlinked pages. Looking at the actual numbers might be quite shocking to some editors, unaware that 50 navbox links actually became over 125,000 link entries. However, the issue could be even more accurately described as the "multi-megalink crisis" of generated links. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
