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May 23, 2008, 12:23 PM
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Re: Discrepancies between API query and Whatlinkshere
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Max Semenik schreef:
> I'm having a weird problem on Arabic Wikipedia.
> Here are the results of conventional Whatlinkshere: http://tinyurl.com/5dfj4x
> And an equivalent API query produces a list of only 3 pages: http://tinyurl.com/6sarwh
> Another example: http://tinyurl.com/686bts
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> This doesn't seem to be reproducable anywhere else.
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> What am I doing wrong?
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You're forgetting that most of the links you see in Whatlinkshere are
not really links, but template inclusions (the "(inclusion)" in [1]). To
get those, use list=embeddedin. You can combine both queries with
list=backlinks|embeddedin .
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
[1] *http://tinyurl.com/64rzwy*
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