YALCP? Yet another link collection page?

[fos]

Benjamin suggested that we add a link page. What is the consensus?

[bluesdog]

A cautious endorsement...

Links are good; articles/how-tos are better. :?

[drahcir]

I Find link pages annoying, The links tend to go stale or are links to links. ect.

[bhobjj]

It would be better on a wiki.
So that the links could be kept organized as to category, topic, etc.

-BoB

[fos]

I have a couple of wiki's running for special purpose groups. They are a pain in the neck if you don't keep them completely locked down. You wouldn't believe the spam they attract if you leave any opening at all.

fos....

[benjaminq]

Dead link deserts are in fact annoying, I thought about a reviewed link page. That is for example you can vote that a link is good or bad and if the majority finds that a specific link is not worth the space it will be kicked.

The links should also be categorised and commented. Very often I read a question in a forum and I think "hum I answered this question before with a fine link I didn't bookmark (you can't bookmark everything)". So a proper link page which would in the ideal case be checked for validity of the links every three months or so, would be a great deal I think.

Here we would have a Debian-centric Link page, links to repositories with software that is not in the official pool (with comments on how good or bad the repo is) ... www.apt-get.org is often enough outdated or the search is not overly precise or you get a couple of repos for the same software but the package from X requires other dependencies than the package from Y ...

Think about is as a next generation bookmark page, not just as mere thrown-together everybodys bookmark.htm; I mean if this is possible to create here and if it will be appreciated ...

BEnjamin

[drahcir]

There Are some util's out there for checking pages for dead links, If one of these coould be automated(run as a cron job and remove dead links) That would be cool.