On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fmwrote:
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&blredi..., where the problematic backlinks are not marked separately, and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blredi..., where they seem to be included under a <redirlinks> element?
-- Avi