Last modified: 2014-11-17 10:34:55 UTC
Special:Whatlinkshere shows the very same - incomplete - List, regardless of parameter selections, such as Number of items to show (limit), where to start (offset), etc. The sample List under the URL above should be 20 entries long, it shows some 400+ entries. In basically aphabetical order, it ends somwhere inside "J..." while it is known that linking pages run to "Z...". Special:Mostlinked tells us of one redirect page alone contributing 1400+ Links being redirected here, so some 1000 at least are not shown. Making a selection that allows the link "show previous N" to show, then following that link, always showed an empty list with our sample page. A caching problem is unlikely, since the situation persists since 10+ days, and all other pages that display caching warnings, have been refreshed several times since. A word of caution: Do not expect the abovementioned sample to be stable for long. The problem was detected during the process of reorganizing a huge part of the 1400+ links in question to a more precise Lemma which is not a redirect any more.
The parameters are being honoured, but not in the most intuitive manner. The limit is applied to the outer level, i.e. the number of direct links. If one of those links comes from a redirect, all the links to the redirect are shown too...or not, which corresponds to the second problem. As far as I remember, the second part is a duplicate bug elsewhere.
I thought so, at 1st sight, that limit/offset might be: 1. applied to the outer level, and 2. then at any inner level, limit too, to the number of entries at this level. My test verified that at least 1. is not the case. With the sample page from above, where there are 3 items at the outer level, an URL with offset=0, offset=1, offset=2, offset=3 should display diffent lists. It does not.
*** Bug 9496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does this still occur in 1.14 ?
*** Bug 9487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4) > Does this still occur in 1.14 ? Or 1.17?
Aaron's work to fix this was reverted. Don't remember it ever seeing a final resolution.
So, we need someone to see if the equivalent of r35371 is done.
And if that's the only rev that matters here, it looks like the answer is "no, it is still reverted" since there is (to my naive understanding) no mention of LinkBatch or Pager.
