Manual:Brokenlinks table

<- MediaWiki architecture < Database layout

The brokenlinks table stores links to articles that don't exist yet. This is used for the "Most Wanted" page (which is usually disabled due to MiserMode&trade;), and for some link caching, I think. It is the evil twin of the links table.

"DESCRIBE brokenlinks" results in this:

bl_from stores the cur_id of the article in the cur table where the link was lightheadedly written into the cur_text field. bl_to, obviously, stores the name of the desired article.