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Asked: 2026-06-11T20:01:09+00:00

I’m trying to search e.g. for all articles, linking to a special wikipedia article.

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I’m trying to search e.g. for all articles, linking to a special wikipedia article. E.g. how many articles point to “Carsharing”. On the “real” Wiki pages, I can do this by clicking “What links here”, found in the “toolbox” category. The time needed for this request is low.

But when I try to do this kind of query programmatically on my local installed Wiki database by searching the “page links” table e.g. by doing this SELECT * FROM `pagelinks` WHERE `pl_title` = 'Carsharing', it needs at least 1 minute (on a really fast local system).

Is there any way to do get the results as fast as on the “real” Wiki pages?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Creating an index on the pl_title column (if not present) can significantly improve the preformance of your query, changing a O(n) lookup to a O(log(n)) lookup.

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