Yes, it is ridiculously charitable: neither of you are the first ones
to use that method. I for one have used it in the past, and I'm sure
others have too.
So neither of you "invented" it -- that function has been in the
software all along. You certainly discovered it, but you weren't the
first to do so.
Obviously, this can be done with any list produced by the MediaWiki
software: user contributions (doesn't work for older users),
whatlinkshere, etc.
Mark
On 24/08/05, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/24/05, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss(a)nichtich.de>
wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Is there a Kate's tools-like way of counting
the number of pages that
link to any given page through the "What links here" function? This
would be useful to see which policy pages are most often cited, for
example.
Oh, and I mean a *simple* tool for a technologically simple guy like me.
That's a very interesting idea! I just posted an answer to my blog:
http://wm.sieheauch.de/?p=19
Greetings,
Jakob
Thanks so much Jakob :-D
Andrew had already more or less suggested this but it wasn't until
your detail that i figured out how to actually play with it - which
was exactly my point. I've been playing around with it for a bit and
some further results I got were (I redid NPOV and BOLD myself just to
double check I was doing it ok):
NPOV: 10,668
BOLD: 9,172
NOT: 7,245
Civility: 4,658
CITE: 2,969
No personal attacks: 1,572
NOR: 1,473
BITE: 1,081
Dispute resolution: 213
(Jakob got 5600 links for Wikipedia:Wikiquette and 1,188 for Assume_good_faith)
Interesting.
Thanks again - and by the way, it's ridiculously charitable to suggest
I "invented" this; it was as always a collaborative venture ;-)
Cheers
Cormac
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