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#ifexist: produces an entry in links list
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If there is a call of #ifexist: function, then the page that's existance is checked appears in links list, irrespectively to whether it exists or not. It is not important in most cases, but it produces many links and makes [[Special:Wantedpages]] look very ugly when used in "popular" templates.

Source code calling #ifexist may be found at http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kalan/00?action=raw .

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=user:kalan/00
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12019

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:48 PM
• bzimport added a project: ParserFunctions.
• bzimport set Reference to bz10857.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Kalan created this task.Aug 9 2007, 12:34 PM
• brion added a comment.Aug 9 2007, 1:05 PM

Indeed it does, this is necessary for proper link update behavior.

• bzimport added a comment.Aug 9 2007, 4:20 PM

robchur wrote:

A previous discussion on IRC involving myself and Tim (and to some extent, Brion and Domas) led to the conclusion that it might be possible to indicate when a link has produced a visible effect on a page, but we agreed this was not a high priority.

• MZMcBride added a comment.Feb 6 2013, 9:29 AM

(In reply to comment #2)

A previous discussion on IRC involving myself and Tim (and to some extent,
Brion and Domas) led to the conclusion that it might be possible to indicate
when a link has produced a visible effect on a page, but we agreed this was
not a high priority.

This is being tracked by bug 12019.

• MZMcBride mentioned this in T14019: ifexist function uses pagelinks table in lieu of better options.Aug 14 2016, 7:23 PM
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