[Wikipedia-l] terminology

Thu Nov 28 19:13:42 UTC 2002

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Do these red links have a name?  I used to call them "question mark
> links", but now they are "red links" instead.  Saying "links to pages
> that don't yet exist" (LTPTDYE, the exact phrase actually gets 8 hits
> on Google) is just as tedious as "the artist formerly known as Prince"
> (TAFKAP).  What about "empty links", "blank links", "open links",
> "future links" or "suggested links"?  Is there a word that people
> frequently use?

I call 'em "edit links". The code calls them "broken links".

> BTW, could this wiki idea spread to science, so that a paper would
> cite other papers that might come into existence?  :-)

Why not? It works in finance, where we call them credit cards. ;)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)