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I do still think though that the old design was much more human-welcoming, even if it had less functionality and even if there may have been a handful of places it had problems with. Would it not be possible to retain both designs, with a prominent link on each page to go to see the other view?

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village in Hertfordshire, England, UK

Thanks. I've updated Wikidata's link formatter, so the current 12,270 links from wikidata statements like www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q224580... should switch over to the new URLs in the next 24 to 48 hours.

wikidata.org

Nuthampstead

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Any chance of getting the old human-friendlier pages back up again ?

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/10/2025

@englishplacenames.bsky.social Has the user-friendly version of the survey fallen off the internet? The pages like epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53... no longer seem to be accessible The alternative sepn.nottingham.ac.uk/view-only/da... works, but is a lot less welcoming

epns.nottingham.ac.uk

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Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003: 2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today: 0

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Not helping, that even when there is/was a Canmore summary, they don't show it on the default visible tab -- so when you first look at the page, there's usually *nothing* to tell you about what the item represents

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Bram Stoker
1847-1912
A PENGUIN SINCE 1979

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Incredibly useful resource, btw. Thanks to everybody involved with having made it available.

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Here's a typical page of the kind I've been linking to digital.nls.uk/directories/...

digital.nls.uk

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@natlibscot.bsky.social The link-checker on the WikiTree genealogy site is giving me a lot of HTTP 405 "method not allowed" errors for links to pages from your trade directories on NLS digital. (eg: plus.wikitree.com/function/WTS... ) Any idea why this is? The links seem to work fine for humans.

plus.wikitree.com

Suggestion status

Date of report: 2025-08-21 14:50:23 Date of Data: 17 Aug 2025

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

& until 5 minutes ago I had no idea he was there or what his story was -- so many thanks for bringing that to me this Saturday evening!

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Here he is in 2018 : www.google.com/maps/@55.948...

google.com

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J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Just down from the castle - walked past them this morning

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(all of which had been hand-searched)

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Open Linked Data -- until somebody trashes the links without even noticing

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1200 links for individuals from wikidata & English Wikipedia broken & can't be repaired -- just because the new site doesn't expose a URL for them. Carelessness or half wittedness ? Nobody from Oxford seems reachable about it

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In respect of King's, did anyone mention the transfer of #PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England) to Oxford, and rebuild of that site, which broke all incoming links for individuals, without even replacements ?

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(cf: All too easy to miss or transpose a digit in a Q-number)

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The plus side of human-meaningful uris is they do give a sanity check as to whether you're linking to the sort of object you want; and what the items in a triple stand for

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KGIH look to have avoided this worst case as i) uris not so sensitive (?); ii) redirects possible; iii) new uri discoverable from carried-forward identifier hash, at least from sparql (assuming the identifier bit does get carried forward)

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Worst case is if eg new info => new year of birth => new uri, with no redirect & undiscoverable from the old. (Here's looking at you, Art UK!)

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Not sure. Essays have been written, I know. But I too have piled as much metadata as I can into filenames on occasion.

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Please do jump straight into the discussion there

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