On 07/02/11 10:56, Carcharoth wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 06/02/2011, Magnus Manske<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Is that necessarily a problem in this case? We still will have pages, that are potentially clickable from a large number of articles, that don't exist. Even if they're linked from a template, they're still likely to be fairly important to be in a widely used template.

On 7 February 2011 17:46, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KCwithOL > That template alone accounts for hundreds of links. Uncollapse the > sections to see how many there are. Maybe there should be a limit to > the number of links allows in a single template?

Are we not risking throwing the baby out with the bathwater, here? whatlinkshere is a useful tool, but so are large templates - limiting the latter to benefit the former seems a bit of a zero-sum game.