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API:Links sometimes miss pages in Page namespace (104)
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For unknown reasons(*) , sometimes getting pages in Page ns connected to the respective Index page via https://en.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Blinks will not return all pages but only a subset.

e.g.:

where not all pages in Page ns are returned, as opposite to e.g.:

(*) there might be something in the IndexPage itself which alters the query, or some caching issue or a problem in the API.

Event Timeline

Change 787876 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpaa; author: Mpaa):

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR]: make IndexPage more robust when getting links in Page ns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/787876

Mpaa renamed this task from Improve robustnesss when getting pages linked to IndexPage to API:Links sometimes miss pages in Page namespace (104).Apr 30 2022, 9:42 PM
Mpaa added a project: ProofreadPage.
Mpaa updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 787876 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpaa; author: Mpaa):

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR]: make IndexPage more robust when getting links in Page ns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/787876

This is just to make pywikibot more robust in such cases.

Change 787876 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR]: make IndexPage more robust when getting links in Page ns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/787876