Manual:Brokenlinks table

<- MediaWiki architecture < Database layout

The brokenlinks table stores links to articles that don't exist yet. This is used for Special:Wantedpages (which is sometimes disabled), and perhaps for some link caching. It is the twin of the links table.

"DESCRIBE brokenlinks" results in this:

bl_from stores the cur_id of the article where the link was put, bl_to stores the name (including namespace prefix) of the desired article.