Last modified: 2014-02-25 14:45:12 UTC
To show the redirects to a title you can use the link: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Berlin&hidelinks=1 For the article [[de:Berlin]] the following 4 redirects exist: * [[de:Land Berlin]] * [[de:DE-BE]] * [[de:Freie Hansestadt Berlin]] * [[de:Stadt Berlin]] The API has the following query: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Berlin&blfilterredir=redirects&bllimit=50 The response contains 31 items: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <backlinks> <bl pageid="598689" ns="0" title="Land Berlin" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="830872" ns="0" title="DE-BE" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="1131942" ns="0" title="Max Contag" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="1131945" ns="0" title="Christian Havestadt" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="1192706" ns="0" title="Willi Freitag" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="1361427" ns="0" title="Roger Rossmeisl" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="2369732" ns="0" title="Elisabeth Concordia Crola" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="2440334" ns="0" title="Felicie Bernstein" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="2536783" ns="0" title="Carl Bernstein (Kunstsammler)" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="2782294" ns="0" title="Jörg Hartmann (Maueropfer)" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="2782381" ns="0" title="Lothar Schleusener" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="4282137" ns="0" title="Mieze Katz" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="4506411" ns="0" title="Mark Lehmstedt" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="4530698" ns="0" title="Eckhard Wehage" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="4530700" ns="0" title="Christel Wehage" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="4778961" ns="0" title="Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="5035043" ns="0" title="Lucie Berlin" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="5240111" ns="0" title="Matthias Nowak" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="5288707" ns="0" title="Otto Freitag (Fußballspieler)" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="5629793" ns="0" title="Jean-Rodrique Funke" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="5684248" ns="0" title="Wolfgang Preuß" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="6239882" ns="0" title="Sven Gillert" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="6469922" ns="0" title="Freie Hansestadt Berlin" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7110028" ns="0" title="Augustin Terwesten" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7117879" ns="0" title="Lucius Reichling" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7441473" ns="0" title="BND-Zentrale" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7545608" ns="0" title="Sayed Kamal" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7610976" ns="0" title="Minnie Maria Kronfeld" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7664773" ns="0" title="Iwan Kutisker" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7752064" ns="0" title="Stadt Berlin" redirect="" /> <bl pageid="7766833" ns="0" title="Wilhelm Olschewski junior" redirect="" /> </backlinks> </query> </api> All items are redirects. But only 4 redirect to the article [[de:Berlin]]. The other redirects redirect to other articles. But they contain an invisible link to [[de:Berlin]]. Is this a bug or is there an other API query to get only the redirects to the title?
This is a bug, because only the page_is_redirect field is checked on api, not, if the redirect page has the correct target. Special:Whatlinkshere is checking the redirect table with a LEFT JOIN.
(In reply to comment #1) > This is a bug, because only the page_is_redirect field is checked on api, No it's not. list=backlinks is doing exactly what it's supposed to do here. (In reply to comment #0) > or is there an other API query to get only the redirects to the title? No, there isn't. And that *is* a bug. Retitling and adjusting accordingly.
Change 104764 had a related patch set uploaded by Anomie: API: Add prop=redirects and list=allredirects https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/104764
Change 104764 merged by jenkins-bot: API: Add prop=redirects and list=allredirects https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/104764
This should be deployed to WMF sites with 1.23wmf16, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule.
