On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/11 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
If instead of the template, there was a link to a list, or a link to a category, then "whatlinkshere" would be much cleaner and could
actually
be checked carefully to see if all the links are being used correctly.
Ditto
for listing the outgoing links. If links from transcluded templates
could be
semantically distinguished from links from the actual articles, that
would
be great.
Should clarify things here:
1) Listing of the transclusions of a page on other pages (already done in whatlinkshere) 2) Listing of the pages that have a link to a page (already done in whatlinkshere) Splitting the list in 2 into: 2a) Links entered as plain text with square brackets around it (detecting piped links would be nice as well) 2b) Links that are called from a transcluded page or template (not done at the moment) 2c) Links that are re-routed through a redirect page (already done in whatlinkshere)
And stating which templates are contributing which links would be nice as well, to distinguish between infoboxes and footer topic templates and various flavours of navboxes.
Incidentally, I remember asking once, when italics were made to show up as italics in category pages, whether it would be possible to have "see <REDIRECT DESTINATION>" appear next to the redirect name in the category. It was thought not to be a good idea at the time, but I now see that in the search results (search has been revamped re, that redirects show up there next to the results (I think the search results list the redirect destination, and bolds the redirect that you were searching for). An example is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=barrack+obama&fulltex...
So maybe I should ask again if "REDIRECT <see redirect destination>" for category pages is a goer or not? What would happen here is that in, say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prohibition_by_country
Instead of "Prohibition in Finlandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_Finland" being just in italics, it would appear in italics and have "see Prohibition#Nordic countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition#Nordic_countrieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_Finland" next to it. Might look horrible, but would work just like the blind entries in a paper encyclopedia. Which one was the link is another matter.
Oh goodness, since I'm on the subject of redirects, I might as well point out this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_redirects
One of the examples there is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_Free_Vestibule&redirect=...
Nothing to say there. Just providing another example.
This isn't about date linking, now, is it? What's the etiquette here? Change thread title? Start new thread? Ramble on and on off-topic until date linking is mentioned again? :-)
Carcharoth