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.
Mark
On 24/08/05, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/24/05, Jakob Voss jakob.voss@nichtich.de wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Is there a Kate's tools-like way of counting the number of pages that link to any given page through the "What links here" function? This would be useful to see which policy pages are most often cited, for example.
Oh, and I mean a *simple* tool for a technologically simple guy like me.
That's a very interesting idea! I just posted an answer to my blog: http://wm.sieheauch.de/?p=19
Greetings, Jakob
Thanks so much Jakob :-D
Andrew had already more or less suggested this but it wasn't until your detail that i figured out how to actually play with it - which was exactly my point. I've been playing around with it for a bit and some further results I got were (I redid NPOV and BOLD myself just to double check I was doing it ok):
NPOV: 10,668 BOLD: 9,172 NOT: 7,245 Civility: 4,658 CITE: 2,969 No personal attacks: 1,572 NOR: 1,473 BITE: 1,081 Dispute resolution: 213
(Jakob got 5600 links for Wikipedia:Wikiquette and 1,188 for Assume_good_faith)
Interesting.
Thanks again - and by the way, it's ridiculously charitable to suggest I "invented" this; it was as always a collaborative venture ;-)
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