On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:24 AM, Max Vlasov <max.vla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any other reason to use linkshere instead of backlinks? > linkshere can take multiple titles as input. On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Martin Domdey <anima...@gmx.net> wrote: > Do we get data from different wikibase table columns using API linkshere > or using API backlinks? > Neither returns "wikibase table columns". They both return data from the MediaWiki pagelinks table. > Why is the one "less complicated and hacky" than the other? > backlinks does multiple queries to do some sort of redirect resolution, but at the same time is limited to a single title parameter. Its queries could probably use some improvement. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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