Why <i>not</i> link to Wikipedia?

Posted by: mikes web log, on 07 May 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

An issue that has come up a number of times at work is the question of linking to articles in Wikipedia. It's not terribly unusual for us to link from the documentation set to non-Microsoft resources. A common example in my world is linking to the W3C site. For example, in the topic (article) ASP.NET and XHTML, we discuss how we implement (or don't) XHTML standards, but we refer you to the W3C site for actual standards.Other examples where we've linked to external sites:The Section 508 site for information...

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