On 07/02/11 10:56, Carcharoth wrote:
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Many of these links are due to templates, which I
can do little about.
Can *anyone*, even in principle, do something about that? It really
bugs me that the "what links here" function doesn't distinguish
between links arising from templates (often not directly relevant) and
links directly from the article wiki-text. If the answer is something
to do with parsers, please do explain!
Yes, it's possible. It was necessary to register links from templates
in the pagelinks table so that when a page is deleted or created, the
HTML caches can be updated so that the link colour will change. With a
schema change and some parser work, it would be possible to flag such
links so that they are optional in "what links here".
-- Tim Starling