Issue:Tag clouds based on linking

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Description: Feature like %COUNTFS% but for article linking
Extension / Version: DPL   /   1.6.8
Type / Status: Change Request   /   open

Problem

I love the %COUNTFS% feature to set font sizes based on article usage. Could you create a similar feature based on article linking: how many other articles link to it?

This would let us create tag clouds where the font size gets larger for the most highly-linked articles (those found in Special:Mostlinked or Special:Mostlinkedcategories).

Imaginary example with new keyword addlinkcounter and new variables %LINKFS% and %LINKCOUNT%, showing the categories with the most articles:

<DPL>
  namespace = Category
  addlinkcounter = true
  format = ,<font size="%LINKFS%">[[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]] (%LINKCOUNT%)</font>,&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;,
 </DPL>

--Maiden taiwan 22:22, 22 April 2008 (CEST)

Reply

This is definitely a good idea! But I do not have time to work on it. Can you program? Can you do it? Gero 00:37, 23 April 2008 (CEST)

I see there's already a way to do this if you have some parser functions installed. Maiden taiwan 17:18, 23 April 2008 (CEST)