You're basically saying "let's communicate with entire concepts and ideas instead of words, and let's represent those concepts and ideas via links to articles."

You're basically saying "let's communicate with entire concepts and ideas instead of words, and let's represent those concepts and ideas via links to articles." The problem is that the links will contain words which represent an idea. You couldn't have an article that was made entirely out of links. Furthermore, the link does not immediately convey an idea, unless the reader automatically recognizes the link (not likely). Using the link to represent the idea is more efficient for the person providing the link, but not for the people being talked too, when compared to reading a summary of an idea with the link as a reference. It reminds me of a Star Trek episode (TNG) where the captain is stranded on a planet with an alien who only speaks with references to his species' history (there was also some wild beast that was hunting them). The alien would only say things like "Gesh, from Torrock," which represented a story about a warrior who faced a similar situation to theirs. That short phrase was the link, and it represented an entire idea, but to the captain it had no meaning, because he didn't know the story. I suppose I should have found a link that describes what I just said. That would be hard to find.