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		giancarlostoro on April 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why it took a long time to build the tiny link pre... I imagine most people spend more time reading on Wikipedia as opposed to trying to hover over every link available?

larkeith on April 23, 2018 [–]

That's less than one API hit per 17 English pages viewed - the overwhelming majority of the time, users do not use this feature at all, based on these numbers.

This response is pure sophistry.

kparaju on April 23, 2018 | [–]

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the pageviews are bots/crawlers. They don't hover over links.

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