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Mark Williamson wrote:
Yes, it is ridiculously charitable: neither of you are the first ones to use that method. I for one have used it in the past, and I'm sure others have too.
So neither of you "invented" it -- that function has been in the software all along. You certainly discovered it, but you weren't the first to do so.
Obviously, this can be done with any list produced by the MediaWiki software: user contributions (doesn't work for older users), whatlinkshere, etc.
There are better, more accurate ways to do this, which generally involve running Perl scripts over database dumps. The disambiguation link repair lists on en: are generated this way. With Perl and a DB dump, pretty much anything is possible :)
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