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Problem on Yahoo, Many blanked pages
editCurrently linked site, Yahoo!, is very nice website. I love that very much. But sadly, there is a problem about Yahoo copy of Gray' Anatomy. Many pages are blanked (white, no content) for a long time. I don't know why, and from when this have happened. Here is list of blanked pages. (This is not a whole list, this is just a list of pages which I noticed and collected only today.)
- Coccyx http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=24#p186
- Calvaria_(skull) http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/47#p189
- Femur http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/59#p242
- Quadriceps_femoris_muscle http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=128#p470
- Brainstem http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/187
- Insular_cortex http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/189#p825
- Association_fiber http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/189#p843
Can anyone see something on the linked pages? To me, there are nothing :( --Was a bee (talk) 11:22, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing this out, Was a bee. I can't see anything either. I think the best option may be to (1) contact Yahoo support or (2) get a one-time bot to batch replace the links, or if there are only a few articles, to manually replace the links. --LT910001 (talk) 02:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you LT910001. (1) Today I searched the contact, but I can't find appropriate mail address of Yahoo :S (2) In Yahoo's Gray, there were 292 pages total (from [1] to [2]). Among them, 56 pages had no content (AFA I counted with Irvine, download management software). This is about 20% of total pages. This would be huge in number, but I think, technically, replacement of links is not so difficult task. If there is a difficult thing...., it is that "where should we redirect this links into?" There are some candidates site, listed in Template:Gray's Anatomy link#Alternative sites. I feel Open Library's one (like this) seems comparatively nicer for its very book-like appearance, and does not require registration for full functionality (including book-download function). Thoughts?--Was a bee (talk) 09:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
- I quite like the open library one, and it seems accessible by subject. Where to go from here? --LT910001 (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you LT910001. I changed link target from Yahoo to Open Library by this edit[3]. Within 2 or 3 days, this change will be gradually reflected at each pages[4] which transclude this template (If there is a crucial problem about Open library's one, simply by reverting that edit, situation is restored to the former state.) Remaining step for completion is.... waiting some days :D. --Was a bee (talk) 09:34, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- That's great, hopefully archive.org will keep the files hosted in the future. Yahoo has seen significant cuts recently, and this may be one of them. The dangers in planning long-time with for-profit ventures. CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 21:30, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you LT910001. I changed link target from Yahoo to Open Library by this edit[3]. Within 2 or 3 days, this change will be gradually reflected at each pages[4] which transclude this template (If there is a crucial problem about Open library's one, simply by reverting that edit, situation is restored to the former state.) Remaining step for completion is.... waiting some days :D. --Was a bee (talk) 09:34, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- I quite like the open library one, and it seems accessible by subject. Where to go from here? --LT910001 (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you LT910001. (1) Today I searched the contact, but I can't find appropriate mail address of Yahoo :S (2) In Yahoo's Gray, there were 292 pages total (from [1] to [2]). Among them, 56 pages had no content (AFA I counted with Irvine, download management software). This is about 20% of total pages. This would be huge in number, but I think, technically, replacement of links is not so difficult task. If there is a difficult thing...., it is that "where should we redirect this links into?" There are some candidates site, listed in Template:Gray's Anatomy link#Alternative sites. I feel Open Library's one (like this) seems comparatively nicer for its very book-like appearance, and does not require registration for full functionality (including book-download function). Thoughts?--Was a bee (talk) 09:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)