https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47173
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Bug ID: 47173
Summary: API needs function to only return number of backlinks
to an article.
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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I asked my question on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Main_page#.22What_links_here.22_API_request
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#API_help_question
I have found that "api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&blnamespace=0&bltitle="
+ wgPageName; will tell me if there are any articles that link to the page, but
how can I get the full count (if greater than 500)? I don't care "what"
articles link there, just how many. I'm trying to write myself a little
JavaScript which in part will expand the "What links here" link in my p-tb to
include an count of pages that link to a specific NS (or two or three) and a
total count of pages that link to that article. I intend to use such a script
to save me some time when I'm tagging articles for improvement on enwiki to
quickly know if the article is an "orphan" or not. Thank you.
The response I got was: "You cant, that information is not stored in the
database, the only way to do that is to retrieve the lists in chunks of 500
until you dont have any more."
I'm requesting this functionality be added to the api.
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