[Wikipedia-l] Re: whatlinkshere and {{msg:xxx}}

[Tim Starling]

Peter Gervai wrote:
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Speci%C3%A1lis:Whatlinkshere&target=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Leford%C3%ADtand%C3%B3
> 
> should list
> 
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Magyar_uralkod%C3%B3k_list%C3%A1ja
> 
> but it doesn't. Obviously it's because of the problem I already brought up
> half a year ago about msg and linkback tables. 
> 
> Is there a way to actually update the whatlinkshere tables? At least weekly
> or so? It would be _extremely_ nice to have that in working order. It is not
> a solution to "go and edit them once" since I cannot FIND them without the
> whatlinkhere, and that's the purpose of the stuff anyway. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> [[user:grin]]

That was the requested behaviour, it's working properly. Originally 
there were problems with updating the link table -- links within msg 
tags were registered in the link table, then not updated when the 
message itself was updated. People complained, and one particular 
solution was particularly popular.

The link cache is disabled while processing inclusions, thereby 
preventing any links within the message from being entered into the link 
table. Additionally, a link is registered pointing from the article to 
the message. If you go to:

http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Speci%C3%A1lis:Whatlinkshere&target=MediaWiki:Leford

You'll see that [[Magyar uralkodók listája]] is listed there.

One problem still remains with inclusion, and that is that the squid 
cache and client cache are not cleared when included messages are 
updated. This is fixed in CVS.

-- Tim Starling