How does one get a list of all the Wikipedia redirect pages to a given Wikipedia article?
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For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC2 redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_II. Suppose I only know about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_II article, how can I find out that AC2 page (and possibly others) redirects to it?
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Answer:
The "what links here" function (under the Toolbar dropdown in the lefthand sidebar) should help with this.
Steven Walling at Quora Visit the source
Other answers
This tool, on the Toolserver, is what you're looking for. (For what it's worth, it is linked from the "what links here" page on English Wikipedia.") http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py I'm not sure whether there is a tool that works on non-English editions of Wikipedia.
Pete Forsyth
As mentioned by Steven Walling, the "What links here" function can be used. If you need to do this in a program, the API can also be used: Reference: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks Example (all backlinks for 'Eiffel Tower'): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Eiffel_Tower&bllimit=max&format=json Example (only redirects to 'Eiffel Tower'): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Eiffel_Tower&blfilterredir=redirects&bllimit=max&format=json (These have 'bllimit' set to 'max' to return all results and 'format' set to 'json'.
Manic Laughter
Under the "what links here" list, is it possible to filter redirects specifically?
Anderson Green
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