This might've just been me being stupid at point of use in AWB. But I'd for some reason (not sure rightly or wrongly, my brains a bit fried atm), taken that doing the parameters below, would give a list of what links to the page, and what links to its redirects, but not the redirects itself..
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Great est+Hits+%E2%80%93+Volumen+1993%E2%80%932003&bllimit=max&blnamespace=0 &list=backlinks&bltitle=Greatest+Hits+-+Volumen+1993-2003&bllimit=max&blname space=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Great est+Hits+%E2%80%93+Volumen+1993%E2%80%932003&bllimit=max&blnamespace=0&blred irect &list=backlinks&bltitle=Greatest+Hits+-+Volumen+1993-2003&bllimit=max&blname space=0&blredirect
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Great est+Hits+%E2%80%93+Volumen+1993%E2%80%932003&bllimit=max&blnamespace=0&blred irect&blfilterredir=nonredirects &list=backlinks&bltitle=Greatest+Hits+-+Volumen+1993-2003&bllimit=max&blname space=0&blredirect&blfilterredir=nonredirects
Bug or user error?
Ta
Sam
2010/1/23 Sam Reed sam@reedyboy.net:
This might’ve just been me being stupid at point of use in AWB… But I’d for some reason (not sure rightly or wrongly, my brains a bit fried atm), taken that doing the parameters below, would give a list of what links to the page, and what links to its redirects, but not the redirects itself..
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitl...
Interesting. It seems blfilterredir is applied before blredirect, so naturally blredirect won't have any effect. Your expectation that the API should be less stupid in this case seems justified to me: it should ignore blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode, but only in the first step. Other values of blredirect should not be ignored and should be applied to both steps.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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