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by User:Green Cardamom (en.wikipedia.org)Copyright 2015, 2017MIT License

Backlink Watchlist monitors changes to the backlinks (aka Special:WhatLinksHere) of aWikipedia page. It will email whenever new backlinks are added or deleted. It runsfrom cron, typically once a day.

BW is useful in a number of scenarios:

1. Monitor who is linking to a Talk or AfD or RfC discussion.2. Monitor pages in your user space to see if anyone links to them.3. Monitor File: pages to see when they are added/deleted. For example,    Fair Use images can be monitored for copyright violations.4. Monitor Templates to see when they are added/deleted from articles. 5. Other examples.

If someone is linking to something and you want to know about it, this will silentlylet you know.

The program is a GNU Awk script. The install instructions and configuation parametersare at the top of the file. It will work on any Unix system that has GNU Awk 4.0+

Optionally create a symlink: ln -s bw.awk bw

Want to use MediaWiki API with Awk? Check out 'MediaWiki Awk API Library'

https://github.com/greencardamom/MediaWikiAwkAPI