The Problem of Too Large Links

• The adjective “big” is hard to convey.
  • The basic premise here is that “link” refers to page set.
  • An edge of an undirected graph is a set of two elements at a vertex, but the Scrapbox linker extends this to an arbitrary number of elements
  • Q: Isn’t this a directed graph?
    • With naive hypertext, the link is an edge of a directed graph, so the order of the two elements makes sense.
    • A wiki-style system that automatically creates backlinks would make this an undirected graph.
    • Scrapbox can also distinguish “link/sublink”, but here we have an undirected graph with the target relationship as the relationship to which the navigation is connected.
  • With Scrapbox, furthermore, “the link is not necessarily to an existing vertex.”
    • Include non-existent vertices in the vertex set
    • Plus, the two-hop link is effectively a “link to a set of pages.”
    • When this set is too large, there is little benefit to humans from displaying all of it.

The reason automatic linking doesn’t work is because a way to make it work hasn’t been created yet.

• The mistake of “trying to link all pages where a particular keyword appears.”
  • That’s like search results.
  • Easily becomes a “too-big-to-fail” link.
• The same problem occurs with automatic keyword extraction.
• On the other hand, the “links are made by humans” policy that Scrapbox has adopted hasn’t solved the problem either.
  • I’ve manually added too many “KJ method” links because I thought it was important, and now it’s clearly too big.
  • If you keep thinking about a particular subject, the links on that subject will grow too large, and the effectiveness of Scrapbox will be compromised.

In order to achieve a preferred state, we must know what kind of state is preferred

• At any rate, links that are too large are not good.

• How many Scrapboxes or more are rated ”…“?

• Statistics on the size of each user’s links. - Scrapbox Statistics 2019

• Splitting links that are too large

composter of PrivateBox.

• You can pour an entire book into the current Scrapbox, but even if you do that, you won’t be happy with the current Scrapbox.
  • Because links are scarce?
• Should we automatically generate links?
  • Keyword extraction and automatic linking
  • → Tragedy!
    • Mechanisms to turn them into “good links” after the fact are needed

The unexplored name list is also in a bad state due to the “supercreator” tag on all the supercreators.

• The link with the most people in it is not very informative.

Even the “links are made by humans” policy that Scrapbox has adopted hasn’t solved the problem.

• I’ve added too many “KJ method” links because I thought it was important to do it manually, and now it’s clearly too big.

• If you keep thinking about a particular subject, the links on that subject will grow too large, and the effectiveness of Scrapbox will be compromised. [/villagepump/problems with too large links](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/problems with too large links).

• A problem that inevitably arises as the number of pages increases

• Sometimes you don’t think a link is too big at first, but as more pages are added, it becomes too big [yosider.icon].

• The KJ Method.”
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  • I want to do something about it.

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