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by qrian 764 days ago
Why are there so many links to irrelevant wikipedia links, such as [wood], [woman], and [boon]? Did they just run a software to tag every noun with a wikipedia article?
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Sometimes I wish Wikipedia would get more JS-y, and have no hyperlinks as such in text, but you could click on any word (or something) to go to page if it has one.

Because I've had this the other way around too, where it's not linked and I have to go there myself because I actually do want it. (And that can also be because the word was linked elsewhere on the page.)

They’re giving Wikipedia the hard-needed inlinks for search engines.
Cant tell if you're being serious or sarcastic
This was sarcasm
Seriously, I want to see those wooden IBM product mockups and ordered xenon, not a Wikipedia article on wood.