Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-14250-20130712223621/@comment-14250-20130714220524

Dude, thank you. I feel like an idiot for not noticing this. Sometimes wiki software just has so many features that you get tunnel vision on the ones you've managed to understand and utterly ignore ones you have no idea about. I get what you mean about there being applications for seeing transclusions, this just happens to be one specific scenario in which I didn't want to for terms of updating some information that was present in some less obvious contexts and converting them to our more preferred obvious category-based contexts.

Do you know if there is a way to build in the hide transclusions option in a link? Kind of like how we can link Special:ListUsers/sysop instead of just LisUsers? Just to save the trouble/step if we want to show something to someone. The linkable sub-feature is awesome but how to do it isn't always obvious, I can't even remember where I learned it, probably saw someone else linking that way before.

I should've looked first, just append ?hidetrans=1 to the end. Wonder if that works using double brackets or if I need the longer single bracket full URL like with histories.

I kinda wish WhatLinksHere would give a tally of results though so I could compare the difference easily though. Normal searches do that. I'm not sure if it's working TBH.

To give an example of what I'm talking about, this template links to an article about stools. This template is in use on this page and is the only place on the page 'stool' is mentioned or linked to.

But not only does the "episode 3" page show up in a normal WLH, it also shows up in a transclusion-excepting search. The template is transcluded normally using brackets without preceding colon or subst: so I'm not sure why it still pops up in the search results. I thought only the template with the link should rather than pages hosting the template.

Could it be that what hide transclusions does is that normally, if a page transcludes a template, it would display as a link, but this option would remove that... so while a WLH for another template would show all the pages that transclude the template (stuff like 'rubber duck' or 'sponge') the 'hide transclusions' would prevent that.

This doesn't seem to apply to links in the templates themselves though, links only added to the page via transclusion. The idea is some kind of search that would only show links that are directly within a page's code and not added to the code via transcluded templates, which as far as I can tell the hide transclusions search modification (though useful in other regards) sadly doesn't seem to fix.