[WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

[Andrew Gray]

On 8 November 2011 15:32, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I was going to suggest filing a bug, but it seems the problem's been
in bugzilla for six years:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241

Judging by the comments there, it looks like it's technically quite
difficult to do.

Back to the drawing board... fixing whatlinkshere apparently won't
work, and limiting the templates (by removing links or obfuscating
them with redirects) will cause more problems than this one solves, so
what's the third option? Can something be scripted on the toolserver
as a stand-in?

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- Andrew Gray
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