Last modified: 2014-11-17 10:35:08 UTC
Could it be made possible (perhaps as part of the database changes for 1.5?) to show interwiki-links TO a page? And even more important: Could it be shown for images on WikiCommons which wikis are using that image?
This sounds similar to Bug #1394, although being more general. Could these Bugs/Requests for features be merged or mor clearly separated? It's not exactly a duplicate.
Hmmm, yes, they are rather similar. The main similarity is in what is needed for them - both need something to search all databases rather than just one, although this one would need a special field for interwiki-links too. Once those have been implemented (which might be hard, I suppose, to do in a not-too-slow manner), both can easily be implemented.
I'd say you might need a few fields, or maybe even its own table would be best. Having a separate table would make for a cleaner implementation and you could have a whack of indices to speed queries along nicely. I think images and articles could be both served by this table... How has MW changed since April '05, that would help or hinder the resolution of this bug?
There are some recent musings related to this (well, more bug 10237, but still relevant) at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Robchurch/Interwiki_existence_checks.
Adding "whatlinkshere" to summary for better searching.
*** Bug 12830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The Commons part has been solved by GlobalUsage. However a global "WhatLinksHere" to see incoming links from all wikis, doesn't exist yet. Perhaps a similar thing called GlobalLinks ?
Jan Ainali suggested: Global Link Search: A tool that does what Special:LinkSearch does, but on all projects and languages. Need to have: Total number of links. Nice to have: Total number of links per project in one table. Total number of links per language in one table. Total number of links per project and language in one table. From the last table, links to each "local" Special:Linksearch. All links in one table order by number of occurencies descending. Languages/projects with no links could be left out of the tablee instead of showing "0". in https://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Developer_Days
My suggestion is related, but I was mostly curious about external links i.e. showing links to a specific external website. But perhaps, if done in a general way, that wish could be solved by this issue.
Note, there is now interwiki stuff in the api: All links to wikibooks using b prefix: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=iwbacklinks&iwblprefix=b All interwikis on main page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=iwlinks&titles=Main%20Page There's not really any special page web interface to this though that i am aware of... Of course doing this in a cross wiki fashion (anything that links to this specific page from any other wiki) is much harder.
Jan, did you say that you were able to talk with Timo about this a few days ago? What was the result?
(In reply to comment #11) > Jan, did you say that you were able to talk with Timo about this a few days > ago? What was the result? We did talk, and there is a tool on the toolserver for that. But : (In reply to comment #8) > Jan Ainali suggested: > > Global Link Search: > ... that is about external links, this bug is about interwiki links (http://example.org vs. [[x:foo]])
To keep these issues separated, I started https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38405 for the Global LinkSearch.
Of course, before we have a cross-wiki one. We should first have a local wiki one. See bug 66293.
