Thanx for the help. I was able to retrieve the baclinks count.

Ankuj
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Petr Kadlec <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> 2009/1/20 Ankuj Gupta <[email protected]>:
> > I have used the query
> >
> > Select count(*) from pagelinks where pagelinks.pl_from=page.page_id;
> >
> > But the results obtained from this query is diff as obtained from the
> > api.What i get is that pagelinks store forward link from a page not the
> > backward links(i may be wrong).Why so happens?
>
> As I have told you already
> (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2009-January/030982.html
> ),
> you need to match on pl_namespace and pl_title, if you want to search
> for backlinks, not pl_from (which is used to search for forward links,
> as its title suggests).
>
> And, Wikipedia-L is not the best mailing list for this sort of
> questions. Some technical list like mediawiki-l
> (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l) would be
> better.
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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