On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn(a)fastmail.fm>wrote;wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:49:45AM -0500, Russell Blau
wrote:
And that's an excellent example of why
redirect templates should ''not''
include wikilinks! See
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16218
(one of several bug reports that basically are
identifying the same
problem -- Special:Whatlinkshere/Foo treats any wikilink appearing
anywhere
on a redirect page as a redirect.
Why is there a difference between
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blred…rects&bltitle=Plural,
where the problematic backlinks are not marked separately, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blred…;bltitle=Ticker%20symbol,
where they seem to be included under a <redirlinks> element?
-- Avi