It is the curse of many a wiki, that many (even most), pages contain multiple links with missing or empty pages.
It is not enough to claim in retrospect that: > This page is not finished.
Rather it is important to set the expectation of the reader. the reader should know whether the page if finished, or work-in-progress at the start. This gives them the cahnce to skipt reading now and come back later, and also to avoid clicking on as-of-yet unwritten link-pages.
# Reality The reality of the social context is that it is very rare to find an author who will finish all their pages. There are good reasons, and bad reason for this - but the important truth is that it will not work to hope that authors will follow an ideal practice. The tools and designs points in the direction of unfinished pages.
# Utility
There is an important utility in adding unwritten page-links to your writing. Indeed one of the first excersizes you are taught in federated wiki is to idea mine a text. in this practice you start by reading and carefully choosing a few concepts in teh text to highlight by adding an internal link to the wiki page. Only later - often on another day do you come back to finsih the job.
It is part of the practice of writing a good hypertext to carefully craft what you link - how many items and where they sit on a page. It is often only at the end of the text that you realise the right name for a link, or what the main concepts you wish to write about are - hence the practice of quickly scaterring links over the text, before coming back and refining your choices.
# The Fix Luckily there are many useful tols that wikis have for finding and fixing missing links or orphan pages. We do nto yet have these tools in federated wiki, but I they are not difficult to make and I will be crafting my own tools to aid with my writing in the coming months. I'm used to writing that way, and I'm not happy to go back to a place where i do not have such tools.
Given a few such experiments in the coming months, I'm confident based on prior experience that others will find those tools useful, and encouraging the rapid development of many such tools will be part of the interdisciplinary process. See: - Vibe Coding Experiment - Wasm Tools and Mech
# Imagine
I imagine a tool which looks at my page when I decide to leave it, and writes a small report, highlighting any broken or missing links. I page which passes teh Page Test would be Finished, or some such gradation.
Broken or missing inks could be automatically unlinked and then re-linked. Types of links could be presented visually in different ways.