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What links here (all NS) produces very incomplete list of pages
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On Wikipedia, I was running a What Links Here query and hundreds of results from the user namespace appear. (I'm trying to see the full list of users that use a specific template)

So, in AWB, I do a "Make list" of "What links here (all NS)" on the same template, filter it for the user namespace, and only two (2) are displayed.

Is there some limitation I don't know about, or is this a bug? I'm using AWB 5.8.8.0.

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Something to do with transclusions?

Note that "What transcludes page (all NS)" works. But my point was that a WLH on AWB doesn't work the same as WLH on the wiki (as accessed from a browser).

Different default options? Which the API does differ from the user ui too

Perhaps. The user UI includes transclusions by default, I think. One can decide to hide them.

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It is transclusions (looking at the example provided of "Template:User wikipedia/RC Patrol").

In AWB use "What transcludes page" and you get 3064 pages in User namespace for Template:User wikipedia/RC Patrol.

There are also 12 links to template in User namespace, which is what "What Links Here" provides in AWB after filtering, so use that if you need those too.