https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40283

--- Comment #5 from Sam Reed (reedy) <[email protected]> 2012-09-21 01:54:16 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yeah I suppose DPL should add the links to the link table.
> 
> On the other hand. DPL updates even in times that linkupdates do not occur,
> which means that the list of links would get out of date on some pages (for
> pages like the Main Page, probably very quickly).
> 
> For now you can work around by screen scraping ?action=render or the api parse
> action.

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I'm not particularly fussed with *where* the bug originates.
> > My issue is that the API is supposed to provide a list of all links from a
> > specific page. And, this is a case where it does not.
> > That is a bug in the API, because the API is not doing what it says on the 
> > tin.
> 
> It is a problem of DPL and the api is only one part, where this bug is 
> visible.
> 
> You will also not seeing the links on Special:WhatLinksHere of the target or
> with list=backlinks of the target, because there are not in the database and
> cannot be selected.



Seems very WONTFIXy

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