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diff --git a/extensions/ArchInterWiki.sql b/extensions/ArchInterWiki.sql index 08858fda..75466894 100644 --- a/extensions/ArchInterWiki.sql +++ b/extensions/ArchInterWiki.sql @@ -1,19 +1,25 @@ /* - * Before deleting interlanguage links, remove them from the articles + * Before deleting interwiki links, remove them from the articles. * - * In order to find all the interlanguage links of a particular language you - * need to do an API search, e.g. - * https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php?action=query&list=langbacklinks&lbllimit=500&lblprop=lltitle&lbllang=de - * That example uses German ('de'), but for the other languages it's enough to - * change the value of 'lbllang' to the needed language tag. - * Note that API queries are always limited, so if a language has more than 500 - * backlinks it will be necessary to continue the search adding the - * 'lblcontinue' attribute that appears at the bottom of the list to the - * query string. - * Also note that such a query does not find (all) interwiki redirects, if - * present: a search like - * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&limit=500&offset=0&search=%22redirect%20%5B%5Bde%3A%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced - * should do the job instead. + * In order to find all the interlanguage links of a particular language, you + * need to do an API search, e.g. + * https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php?action=query&list=langbacklinks&lbllimit=max&lblprop=lltitle&lbllang=de + * This example uses German ('de'), but for the other languages it is enough to + * change the value of 'lbllang' to the needed language tag. + * + * Interwiki links using a specific prefix can be found similarly, for example: + * https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php?action=query&list=iwbacklinks&iwbllimit=max&iwblprop=iwtitle&iwblprefix=wikipedia + * This example uses 'wikipedia', but for other interwiki prefixes it is enough + * to change the value of 'iwblprefix' accordingly. + * + * Note that API queries are always limited, so if given interwiki prefix has + * more than 500 (or 5000 if you have the 'apihighlimits' right) backlinks, it + * will be necessary to continue the search as described in + * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries + * + * Also note that such queries do not find (all) interwiki redirects, if + * present. A search like this should do the job instead: + * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&limit=500&offset=0&search=%22redirect%20%5B%5Bde%3A%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced */ REPLACE INTO |