On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > On 8 November 2011 15:32, Carcharoth <carcharot...@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?
Thanks for the link to that. That is not the bugzilla discussion I saw previously, though maybe the discussion I am remembering was on wiki-tech-l. I think it was, but there was also discussion in another wiki-en-l thread about the same time (February 2011). See what Tim Starling says here (on wiki-en-l): http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-February/108486.html The wiki-tech-l discussion had this comment from Brion Vibber: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-February/051647.html Given that both Tim and Brion had commented and nothing got done, I sort of gave up at that point. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l