[WikiEN-l] One way inter-languages links

[Rob Church]

On 10/01/07, wikien-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org
<wikien-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:34:16 +0000
> From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] One way inter-languages links?

> They're not stored directly in the database, they're stored in the
> source code for the articles just like links within one wiki. The only
> way one wiki code detect the links to their article on other languages
> articles would be to read every single article on that wiki. Not
> practical.

Actually, we *do* track interlanguage link relationships in the
database, as we do for page links, image links, external links,
category links, etc.

Therefore, it's entirely possible that someone could whip up a
toolserver-based request mechanism to allow them to find out who's
linking to them.


Rob Church