Template:LinkSummary/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:LinkSummary (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

Template documentation

This template is used on approximately 534,000 pages, or roughly 4% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Example

{{LinkSummary|example.com}} produces:

example.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

Do not use "subst" with this template

the ? after bot reports will link to Erwin's tool to list diffs since the link was added for each instance. This will help you check if that link addition has already been reverted or not.

Link labels explained

LinkSearch

Does Special:LinkSearch/*.example.com on Meta, enwiki, frwiki, dewiki, simplewiki
Links to an external tool for the 20 (currently) biggest Wikipedias
To check all wikis, if you have a Toolserver account, use tswiki:MySQL queries#List of external links from all wikis.

Reports

LinkReport lists all additions of the link in COIBot's database
COIBot links to the COIBot report which lists link additions by specified users
- These will also be automatically generated under certain conditions - ask Beetstra for details on the formula.
- Otherwise, command them to be created in IRC.
en links to en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkSearch/example.com, which may or may not exist.
- If it does, it's a static version of Special:LinkSearch maintained by BetacommandBot and/or clone(s)

Search

Google searches for the domain
en (G) is a wiki-search for the domain on enwiki then a Google search on enwiki for the domain
- same for frwiki, dewiki, meta
backlinks uses Exalead to search for backlinks for the domain
→links← shows incoming links for example.com on Meta
- the template has a link to it hidden with style=display:none;, so in effect this tracks where {{linksummary|example.com}} has been mentioned

DomainTools

whois does a search on whois.domaintools.com
AboutUs does a search on aboutus.org
Malware? does a search in malwaredomainlist.com
Alexa does a search on alexa.com, which provides the standard web traffic statistics