On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 8 November 2011 15:32, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
What I'm looking for is the ability to filter links to articles that are due to that template being transcluded on other pages, and links that actually come from the non-transcluded areas of articles. Preferably with the links from transclusions annotated with the name of the transcluded item generating the link.
I was going to suggest filing a bug, but it seems the problem's been in bugzilla for six years:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241
Judging by the comments there, it looks like it's technically quite difficult to do.
Back to the drawing board... fixing whatlinkshere apparently won't work, and limiting the templates (by removing links or obfuscating them with redirects) will cause more problems than this one solves, so what's the third option? Can something be scripted on the toolserver as a stand-in?
Thanks for the link to that. That is not the bugzilla discussion I saw previously, though maybe the discussion I am remembering was on wiki-tech-l. I think it was, but there was also discussion in another wiki-en-l thread about the same time (February 2011). See what Tim Starling says here (on wiki-en-l):
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-February/108486.html
The wiki-tech-l discussion had this comment from Brion Vibber:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-February/051647.html
Given that both Tim and Brion had commented and nothing got done, I sort of gave up at that point.
Carcharoth