Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 8 (section)

== Special:Linkedfrom ==

Is there any simple way to produce a list of articles which are linked from a specific article?  Something of the sort ought to be available; the server already does this automatically when any page is saved.  --[[User:Eequor|[[User:Eequor|η]]<span style="vertical-align: text-bottom">[[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]]</span>[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Eequor}} υωρ]]] 19:44, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:Actually, I'm not sure there is specifically a page for listing links ''from'' an article - probably not often needed/wanted. The closest I can think of is [[Special:Recentchangeslinked]], which is like a watchlist only for the articles linked from a particular page. What were you hoping to use it for? - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 20:11, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:::This ''is'' such a list if large parameters are used, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Wikipedia:Help_desk&hideminor=0&days=3000&limit=1000 , just not alphabetic, and not including interwiki links.--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 00:03, 2004 Sep 22 (UTC)

::<s>To my knowledge, there's no such function built-in to the Wikipedia, and there likely won't be any time soon because the developers have much more pressing concerns on their plates. OTOH, it might be a good idea to submit a [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=34373&atid=411195 feature request] at Sourceforge, if there isn't one already.</s> Thanks to Patrick for pointing out the Recentchangeslinked trick. It's not formatted nicely, though, so I'm glad the script that I wrote didn't end up being a ''complete'' waste of time:

::I do agree that this functionality would be very useful, though. I've written a [[Python programming language|Python]] script to accomplish this at '''[[User:Benc/Scripts/what links out.py]]'''. It should be very simple to use: you just copy the page source into the script and execute it using a Python interpreter. It still has a few rough edges, and it's certainly not the most user-friendly solution, but it's a start. [[User:Benc|•&nbsp;Benc]][[User_talk:Benc|&nbsp;•]] 23:26, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)