[WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

[Carcharoth]

Dredging up an old post to ask those reading this list what the best
way is to make progress on this. I suspect the answer is to post again
to something like wiki-tech-l, but that didn't really get things
moving last time. I'm asking this time because I'm struggling to make
"what links here" work for the articles listed at this rather large
template:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Polar_exploration

What I'm looking for is the ability to filter links to articles that
are due to that template being transcluded on other pages, and links
that actually come from the non-transcluded areas of articles.
Preferably with the links from transclusions annotated with the name
of the transcluded item generating the link.

Carcharoth

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree entirely with Carcharoth, and have been having the same thoughts for
> the past year. It's not even possible to momentarily delete an article from
> a template in order to see what other articles actually link to it, because
> the "what links here" can take days to update fully. It'd be really helpful
> if a solution could be found.
>
> -Will Beback
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Basically, what matters here is readability and usefulness.
>>
>> And knowing how many links are from within templates and how many from
>> within the actual text of an article is not useful? "What links here"
>> is a useful tool for editors that has become useless because of the
>> use of such templates. This has been known for a long time, and
>> sometimes technical people say that something can be done, but rarely
>> does something actually get done.
>>
>> Carcharoth
>>
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