[WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

[Will Beback]

I agree entirely with Carcharoth, and have been having the same thoughts for
the past year. It's not even possible to momentarily delete an article from
a template in order to see what other articles actually link to it, because
the "what links here" can take days to update fully. It'd be really helpful
if a solution could be found.

-Will Beback


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Basically, what matters here is readability and usefulness.
>
> And knowing how many links are from within templates and how many from
> within the actual text of an article is not useful? "What links here"
> is a useful tool for editors that has become useless because of the
> use of such templates. This has been known for a long time, and
> sometimes technical people say that something can be done, but rarely
> does something actually get done.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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