2009/1/18 Ankuj Gupta <[email protected]>: > I am working on my project based on wikipedia. For that i require > number of backlinks for each page in wiki.Is it possible to find them > using the pagelinks table.
Yes, you can use the pagelinks table for that. You need something like SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pagelinks WHERE pl_namespace=0 AND pl_title='Page_title' > Or it there some other method. I tried the > mediawiki-api as well but was not able to understand how they can be > used. AFAIK, there is no method to get a *count* of backlinks in the API; you could get a complete list with something like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Ook and count those, but that would be wasting resources. HTH, -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
