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Every page has a link labelled "What links here" (or, more generally, labelled with the text in mediawiki:whatlinkshere).

This backlink facility can be used to see which other pages in the same project contain a link to a given page.

Beperkingen

• zijn niet vermeldsubpages die gewoon een automatische link hebben naar een pagina
• er zijn niet meer dan 500 pagina's vermeld; indien er meer zijn, is erg een indicatie dat de lijst niet compleet is; enkel door de lijst te copiëren naar een bewerker die het aantal lijnen kan tellen en concluderen dat er 500 pagina's zijn op de lijst, kan men ervan uitgaan dat er wellicht meer zijn dan 500; het is aanbevolen om de tekst er in toe te voegen MediaWiki:Linkshere, zoals hier gebeurde op Meta en op de Engelse Wikipedia: "(tot 500 zijn getoond)".

Cases of transclusion

• in the case of a template, referral to it is treated as link
• 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
• in the case of an image, using it in a page is listed in the third section of the image description page, but not in "What links here" of that page

Other uses

This facility works also for a page that does not exist. The What links here button is also on the edit page on which one arrives when following a broken link.

One can also use a link of the form Special:Whatlinkshere/John Smith, or equivalently (here on Meta) http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=John_Smith

The feature can also be applied to itself and other special pages, e.g.:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special%3AWhatlinkshere
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special%3ARecentchanges
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special%3AWhatlinkshere
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special%3ARecentchanges

Order

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 chronological order.

See also

• Categories - Relation with "What links here?"
• en:Wikipedia:What links here