LinkDatabase

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The LinkDatabase feature gives a list of all page-links in the wiki. The first link on each line is to the page being searched, and the following links are those that were found on that page.

Samples: [Note that all the options can be combined]

ProperTreatment:action=links (plain list)
ProperTreatment:action=links&editlink=1 (non-existant pages include the "?" edit-link)
ProperTreatment:action=links&empty=1 (list "empty" pages (without any links of the requested type))
ProperTreatment:action=links&names=0 (just the links, no page names)
ProperTreatment:action=links&unique=0 (every instance of the link, not just the first one per page)
ProperTreatment:action=links&unique=2 (only list each link one time (do not repeat it on later pages))
ProperTreatment:action=links&sort=0 (links in the order they appear on the page)
ProperTreatment:action=links&exists=0 (only links to non-existant pages)
ProperTreatment:action=links&exists=1 (only links to existing pages)
ProperTreatment:action=links&url=1 (also include URL links)
ProperTreatment:action=links&url=2 (*only* include URL links)
ProperTreatment:action=links&inter=1 (also include InterWiki links)
ProperTreatment:action=links&inter=2 (*only* include InterWiki links)
ProperTreatment:action=links&inter=2&search=UseMod: (Search for InterWiki links to UseModWiki)
ProperTreatment:action=links&url=2&search=crit.org (Search for URL links mentioning crit.org)
ProperTreatment:action=links&names=0&unique=2&exists=0 (show all non-existant (wanted) links, showing each link only once)

Notes:

All URLs and InterWiki links are considered non-existent. (It would be rather expensive to check them.)
The setting empty=0 may leave blank lines if names=0 is also set.

The LinkDatabase feature currently rescans the entire database every time it is used, so it is slow and CPU-intensive. Eventually the code will store the results and reuse them.