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* Can people tell what the article is about if the first page is printed out and passed around? | * Can people tell what the article is about if the first page is printed out and passed around? | ||
* Would a reader want to follow some of the links? Do sentences still make sense if they can't? | * Would a reader want to follow some of the links? Do sentences still make sense if they can't? | ||
=== Build the web === | |||
Remember that every Chalo Chatu article is tightly connected to a network of other topics. Establishing such connections via wikilink is a good way to establish context. Because Chalo Chatu is not a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles like a paper encyclopedia, but a collection of randomly accessible, highly interlinked ones, each article should contain links to more ''general'' subjects that serve to categorize the article. When creating links, do not go overboard, and be careful to make your links relevant. It is not necessary to link the same term twelve times (although if it appears in the lead, then near the end, it might be a good idea to link it twice). | |||
Avoid making your articles orphans. When you write a new article, make sure that one or more other pages link to it, to lessen the chances that your article will be orphaned through someone else's refactoring. Otherwise, when it falls off the bottom of the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]] page, it will disappear into the Mists of Avalon. There should always be an unbroken chain of links leading from the [[Main Page]] to every article in Chalo Chatu; following the path you would expect to use to find your article may give you some hints as to which articles should link to your article. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
