Dredging up an old post to ask those reading this list what the best
way is to make progress on this. I suspect the answer is to post again
to something like wiki-tech-l, but that didn't really get things
moving last time. I'm asking this time because I'm struggling to make
"what links here" work for the articles listed at this rather large
template:
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.
Carcharoth
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Will Beback <will.beback.1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree entirely with Carcharoth, and have been having
the same thoughts for
the past year. It's not even possible to momentarily delete an article from
a template in order to see what other articles actually link to it, because
the "what links here" can take days to update fully. It'd be really
helpful
if a solution could be found.
-Will Beback
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Basically, what matters here is readability and
usefulness.
And knowing how many links are from within templates and how many from
within the actual text of an article is not useful? "What links here"
is a useful tool for editors that has become useless because of the
use of such templates. This has been known for a long time, and
sometimes technical people say that something can be done, but rarely
does something actually get done.
Carcharoth
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