Infoboxes in Wikipedia often contain information which is quite useful outside Wikipedia but can be surprisingly difficult to data-mine.
I would like to find all Wikipedia pages that use Template:Infobox_Language and parse the parameters iso3 and fam1...fam15
But my attempts to find such pages using either the Toolserver's Wikipedia database or the Mediawiki API have not been fruitful. In particular, SQL queries on the templatelinks table are intractably slow. Why are there no keys on tl_from or tl_title?
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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