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  • 01:20, 9 November 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 143.89.89.152 to last version by Patrick)
  • 07:24, 9 October 2006 contribs)| (==In-page list of backlinks==)
  • 10:03, 16 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Order; query)
  • 10:03, 16 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Order; query)
  • 10:02, 16 August 2006 contribs)| (→Order; query)
  • 09:57, 16 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Order; query)
  • 09:54, 16 August 2006 contribs)| (→Order; query)
  • 09:52, 16 August 2006 contribs)| (→Order; query)
  • 09:47, 16 August 2006 contribs)| (→Order; query)
  • 09:36, 16 August 2006 contribs)| (→See also - Query#embeddedin)
  • 12:08, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→Overview - query#links.)
  • 11:51, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→Overview - Pagelinks table)
  • 11:46, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (The pages linking to and/or embedding the given page are listed. The pages embedding the given page are marked with "inclusion"; this info comes from the templatelinks table. For these pages it is)
  • 11:42, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 11:40, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 11:32, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (If on page A the name of an embedded page is time-dependent, e.g. <nowiki>{{abc{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</nowiki>, currently giving {{abc{{CURRENTDAY}}}}, the "What links here" list of one of the possibly embe)
  • 08:14, 9 August 2006 contribs)| (→See also - on the other hand, this function does not indicate which backlinks are redirects, and does not include ''their'' backlinks)
  • 07:43, 9 August 2006 contribs)| (→Order - As demonstrated by using Query#backlinks, which gives the backlinks in the same order, they are ordered by id.)
  • 07:30, 9 August 2006 contribs)| (→See also - *Query#backlinks - allows restriction to a specified namespace)
  • 07:30, 9 August 2006 contribs)| (*Query#backlinks)
  • 12:53, 5 July 2006 contribs)| (==Cases of inclusion== restore useful section)
  • 01:17, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (→See also - rm link to w:WP:WLH, it will redirect to this page later)
  • 01:13, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (→Other uses - rm obviously wrong section (obsolete, none of the 4 links worked))
  • 01:11, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion - rm incomprehensible and irrelevant details)
  • 01:09, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (rm irrelevant details from lerad section, page is beyond minimal standard for a user talk page, let alone the handbook)
  • 01:07, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (→Limitation - Copy relevant article from w:en:)
  • 13:17, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 13:15, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 13:09, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 12:59, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion - (B includes B, but without recursion).)
  • 12:56, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (If a page that includes B links to C, page B can be added to the backlinks of C by putting an example of usage of B on page B (because this includes B in B), inside noinclude tags.)
  • 11:35, 22 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 11:30, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion)
  • 11:29, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of inclusion - **If the link in B to C is within includeonly tags then A links to C, but B does not.)
  • 11:22, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 11:21, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 11:18, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 11:13, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 11:10, 22 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 11:09, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion - update)
  • 16:38, 13 March 2006 contribs)| (while there are no articles on subtopics of B, such that within the scope of one of those articles A is important enough for a link.)
  • 16:26, 13 March 2006 contribs)| (The facility is especially useful to find related articles in the following case: A links to B, but A is deemed to unimportant in the context of B to have a reverse link, from B to A.)
  • 14:39, 2 January 2006 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion - new: *in the case of a template, referral to it is listed with the text "(inclusion)")
  • 08:13, 27 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 03:46, 25 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 17:19, 17 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 05:29, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Replacement of {{new}} with {{H:new}})
  • 21:49, 2 August 2005 contribs)| (rev vandalism by User:Mithun uds)
  • 14:02, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (BUG: the parameters offset and limit, for which links are provided, do not seem to work, see e.g. commons:Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:English, which gives the same (presumably all) ca. 5500 pag)
  • 13:41, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - rm)
  • 13:41, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (→Limitations - update)
  • 13:39, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (From MediaWiki 1.5 (http://test.leuksman.com/) the limit and ofset can be specified, there is no more the general limit of 999.)
  • 10:33, 19 June 2005 contribs)| (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - 999)
  • 10:31, 19 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Limitations)
  • 10:23, 19 June 2005 contribs)| ({{localurl:Special:Whatlinkshere/John Smith|limit=999}})
  • 21:28, 6 June 2005 contribs)| ((for example, on w:en: there is the requirement that when viewing an article in a category, it is obvious why the article is in the category, and that the category subject is prominently discussed in)
  • 13:19, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 13:11, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 13:05, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (to find out what templates cause pages to link to C, it is not sufficient to check for templates in the backlinks of C; some templates can only be found by checking what templates are used in the back)
  • 11:56, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (not only pages and subcategories, but also the contents of the subcategories (for each a list of pages and a list of sub-subcategories) and the contents of the sub-sub-subcategories (for each a list o)
  • 10:08, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (→Redirects - The backlinks of the redirect are also shown, and if they include a redirect, and the backlinks of that also (not more).)
  • 09:44, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (for the purpose of backlinks and Related changes, A links to C if there is, in that order, a chain of template calls, a single redirect, template calls, a single redirect, etc., template calls, and a)
  • 09:35, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (→Workarounds for the 500-limit)
  • 09:33, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (As a workaround for the 500-limit, the set of pages linking to a given page can be divided in subsets of not more than 500, each linking to an auxiliary page which redirects to the target page. Altern)
  • 08:49, 26 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 08:46, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (Even without a template name depending on a variable or parameter, if page A links to page C due to the inclusion of template B1 which redirects to B2, A is in the list of backlinks of C but B1 is not)
  • 15:39, 25 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 15:35, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 15:15, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion - Whether there is a link from A to C is relevant for backlinks as well as Related changes. If C does not exist, only backlinks are applicable.)
  • 06:55, 22 May 2005 contribs)| (This makes it a useful tool for finding double redirects, which do not work, and, except in special applications (see below) can better be replaced by redirects to the final target.)
  • 06:50, 22 May 2005 contribs)| (→Other uses - mv up)
  • 00:04, 22 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 14:11, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (As opposed to actual categories, the backlinks can show a tree structure: not only pages and subcategories, but also the contents of the subcategories, see [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help|Cat: He)
  • 13:29, 21 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 13:21, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Other uses - This could be useful for a special-purpose category that should not clutter the regular list of categories.)
  • 13:11, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (Links could be put specially for use with "What links here", as an alternative category system, even to non-existing pages, e.g. Altcat:Help 1, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help 1. Putting)
  • 12:08, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 12:03, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 12:02, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Cases of transclusion)
  • 14:30, 18 April 2005 contribs)| ({{What links here}})
  • 15:17, 25 February 2005 contribs)| m (→Limitations)
  • 06:43, 29 October 2004 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 221.194.206.191 to last version by AaronPeterson)
  • 05:35, 23 September 2004 contribs)| m (bah, I added an extra ))
  • 05:32, 23 September 2004 contribs)| m (({{handbook sidebar|reader toc}})
  • 11:29, 21 September 2004 contribs)| (no colon at the end of a header, please)
  • 11:07, 21 September 2004 contribs)| m (did headers, so a table of contents would pop up, if not desired, please use <h> tags? to suppress the toc?)
  • 06:17, 24 August 2004 contribs)| (it is recommended to add to the text in MediaWiki:Linkshere, as has been done here on Meta and on the English Wikipedia: "(up to 500 are shown)".)
  • 05:57, 24 August 2004 contribs)| (rm dup, http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=John_Smith)
  • 05:51, 24 August 2004 contribs)| (Every page has a link labelled "What links here" (or, more generally, labelled with the text in mediawiki:whatlinkshere), which can also be put in a page body with [[Special:Whatlinkshere/{{PAGENAME}})
  • 05:29, 24 August 2004 contribs)| (not more than 500 pages are listed; if there are more, there is no indication that the list is not complete; only by copying the list to an editor that can count lines and concluding that there are 50)
  • 14:42, 16 August 2004 contribs)| (The feature can also be applied to itself and other special pages, e.g.:)
  • 12:53, 12 August 2004 contribs)| ((excluding subpages that just have an automatic link to it).)
  • 10:57, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (from Pump: When the link tables in the database are rebuilt, the lists are alphabetically ordered. However, adding a link subsequently causes it to be added to the end, and thus these occur in chronol)
  • 10:32, 24 June 2004 contribs)| (*a link from a template is only treated as such, not as link from the pages that show the link because they refer to the template)
  • 13:35, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (Cases of transclusion:)
  • 10:05, 13 June 2004 contribs)| (MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_Categories#Relation_with_.22What_links_here.22)
  • 09:45, 13 June 2004 contribs)| (adapted from *en:Wikipedia:What links here)

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