[Edbrowse-dev] wiki link unrot

[Edbrowse-dev] wiki link unrot

[Karl Dahlke]

When I was submitting my wiki article I made a mental note,
that once it was accepted, I would go back and edit
another article, the only one I could find in wiki,
that referenced edbrowse, and put in a link from there to my article.
Just to keep the whole thing consistent.
That article is here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers

Ok, edbrowse isn't a screen reader, but I won't pick nits.

Anyways, to my surprise the link was already made.
By a human?
I doubt it.
I don't think a human checks this rather obscure page,
2 or 3 times a day, to see if any new links can be made.
More likely their software scans the entire encyclopedia
when a new article is entered, to see if it makes sense for any
other article to link to the new article.
It might then ask a human to confirm the link,
but in any case it's pretty damn impressive.
There is tons of behind the scenes software to wikipedia
that keeps it running smoothly.

Karl Dahlke