MediaW...t::link(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Parse::MediaWikiDump::link — bestie, it's an object that represents a link from one article to another 🦋✨

So real quick, the manual name situation: this lives in section 3pm of the Perl docs, filed under "User Contributed Perl Documentation" because a lovely human contributed it, and we're all obsessed with that for them 💅

🌸 ABOUT 🌸

Okay so picture this: you've got a MediaWiki instance, right? Articles linking to other articles, chaos, drama, lore. This object is your little backstage pass 🎀 — it gives you access to the data tied to each individual link between articles. One link, one object. Very main character of it, honestly.

✨ METHODS ✨

• $link->from — hands you the article id that the link starts from. Not the name, bestie, the id. That's it, that's the whole vibe 💜
• $link->namespace — gives you the namespace id that the link points to. Again: id, not the name. Don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🫶
• $link->to — this one returns the article title that the link points to — and no, it is not the id, and it does not include the namespace. Title only, periodt 👑

ngl the pattern here is iconic: from and namespace are ids, to is a title. Keep that straight and you're slaying 🔥

That's genuinely the whole page, she's short and she's perfect 😭

Bye bestie, go parse some links 💖 This was perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-15, from your favorite MediaW...t::link(3pm) era. Mwah 🌈⭐🎀