On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 07/02/11 10:56, Carcharoth wrote:
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@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".
That would be wonderful. It might even get me to create a bugzilla account to vote for a bug if there is one open on this...(of course, one problem is still that some templates are relevant to article content and some are not - the ones that generate distracting links are the navigational ones that tend to be at the bottom of pages, the footer templates - and I'm not sure if infobox links would count as template links or not - they are generated from parsing of a template parameter, but don't appear in the template itself, unlike the footer navboxes).
[In case anyone is confused, an example is the massive footer templates that can lead to Nobel prize winners decades apart linking to each other, or diverse topics within a broad area linking to each other, though only through templates and not in the text. Oh, and some links appear in both footer templates, infoboxes, and the article 'text'. Not sure how that is handled.]
Carcharoth