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What Links here
The What links here facility lists the pages on the same site which link to a given page, either the pages in all namespaces, or in a specified one. To see this information, choose the what links here link while looking at any page. The pages linking to and/or embedding the given page are listed. The list is sorted by page id, i.e., by date of creation of the page.
This info comes from the pagelinks tabl] and the templatelinks table. The pages embedding the given page are marked with the content of MediaWiki:Istemplate ("transclusion" or "inclusion"); for these pages it is not shown whether they also link to the given page. This can be seen with query#backlinks.
The list of links to an article is useful in a number of ways:
- It gives a very rough indication of how popular a page is. Pages with many links are likely to be viewed often and should therefore be of the very best quality. Pages with few or no links may not be very popular.
- Where the subject material of an article is unclear, the list of articles linking to it might provide useful context. For instance when presented with a stub about John Smith that gives only his date of birth and death, viewing the list of links to the article might reveal that he won a gold medal in the Olympics.
- Facilitates proper disambiguation.
This facility works also for a page that does not exist (there may be links to it, which makes it extra useful to create it). The What links here button is also on the edit page on which one arrives when following a broken link.
To invoke a what links here list directly, use e.g.
[[Special:Whatlinkshere/Poetry]]
resulting in Special:Whatlinkshere/Poetry.
Special Pages
The namespace "Special:" consists of "special pages". These have no corresponding wikitext; they are created by the Zulunotes software.
All of the below linked Special pages produce content particular to Zulunotes..
- Special pages
- Special:Specialpages : A list of all special pages for all users.
- All pages
- Special:Allpages : all pages in a specified namespace in ASCII order, including redirects (to distinguish redirects, one can set ".allpagesredirect" class in the style sheets); on Wikimedia sometimes temporarily disabled. Both a namespace and a starting page can be specified:
- Special:Allpages/Template - main namespace, from "Template"
- Special:Allpages/Template: - Template namespace, from start
- Special:Allpages/Template:T - Template namespace, from "T"
- All pages with prefix
- Special:Prefixindex; if the last character of the prefix is a space or underscore it is ignored. One of many important applications is to find subpages with "fullpagename/".
- Articles with the fewest revisions
- Special:Fewestrevisions
- Articles with the most categories
- Special:Mostcategories : lists articles from whose number of categories is largest.
- Articles with the most revisions
- Special:Mostrevisions : Articles with the most revisions.
- Blocked IP addresses and usernames
- Special:Ipblocklist : Blocked IPs and usernames
- Book sources
- Special:Booksources : ISBN Book Sources
- Broken redirects
- Special:BrokenRedirects
- Captcha
- Special:Captcha on projects supporting this feature. Shows "Captcha help."
- Categories
- Special:Categories : shows the number of members, see also Help:DPL.
- CategoryTree
- Special:CategoryTree : displays categories in tree structure.
- Cross-namespace links
- Special:CrossNamespaceLinks : provides a list of links from a page in the main namespace to a page in other namespaces (except for Special, Talk, Meta and Template namespaces), which are not advisable to use.
- Confirm my email address
- Special:Confirmemail
- Dead-end pages
- Special:Deadendpages : Pages without any outgoing links.
- Disambiguation pages
- Special:Disambiguations : shows pages that link to a disambiguation page, which should link to the appropriate topic instead. A disambiguation page is defined as a page on which a disambiguation template is transcluded; a disambiguation template is defined as a template linked from MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.
- Double redirects
- Special:DoubleRedirects : lists redirects that redirect to another redirects. May contain false positives.
- Expand templates
- Special:ExpandTemplates (extension, enabled on Wikimedia sites): Provides an input box to enter wikitext, and another one to enter a page name, and produces expanded wikitext, i.e., templates, parser functions and variables are expanded recursively; variables depending on page name are expanded based on the supplied page name. See also mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates.
- Export pages
- Special:Export : Produces an XML file containing the wikitext and metadata of either the current version only, or all revisions, of one or more pages, specified in the form of a list; the XML file is in the format required for Special:Import; exporting is typically done either in preparation of applying the latter at another MediaWiki project, or for searching within old page revisions. See Help:Export and import.
- External links
- Special:Linksearch, see Help:Linksearch
- File path
- Special:Filepath : returns the complete path for a file.
- Files
- Special:Imagelist : List of images and other files uploaded that can be sorted by size or date.
- Gallery of new files
- Special:Newimages
- Log in / create account
- Special:Userlogin : Creates new login cookie.
- Logout
- Special:Userlogout : Destroys cookie, see also Privacy policy.
- Logs
- Special:Log : Combined display of various logs. See also below.
- Long pages
- Special:Longpages - pages in the main namespace, with size in bytes, in order of decreasing size
- MIME search
- Special:MIMEsearch : filters files for its MIME-type.
- Most linked-to categories
- Special:Mostlinkedcategories : lists categories from whose number of pages contained is largest.
- Most linked-to images
- Special:Mostimages : lists images from whose number of pages linked is largest.
- Most linked-to pages
- Special:Mostlinked : lists pages from whose number of pages linked is largest.
- Most linked-to templates
- Special:Mostlinkedtemplates : lists templates from whose number of pages linked is largest.
- My page
- Special:Mypage : Link to the user page of the user who follows it.
- My talk page
- Special:Mytalk : Link to the talk page of the user who follows it.
- My watchlist
- Special:Watchlist : Show the pages you are watching. (Watchlist help)
- New pages
- Special:Newpages : Newest pages with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary, in reverse order of creation.
- Oldest pages
- Special:Ancientpages - pages in the main namespace, with date and time of last edit, in order of last edit.
- Orphaned pages
- Special:Lonelypages : Orphaned articles i.e. articles with no links to them in the wiki.
- Pages without language links
- Special:Withoutinterwiki
- Preferences
- Special:Preferences : Select preferences to customise the appearance and behaviour of the software. For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family. See Help:Preferences.
- Protected pages
- Special:Protectedpages
- Random page
- Special:Randompage : redirects to a random page from the main namespace which is not a redirect. Other namespaces can be specified as a parameter, e. g.: Special:Randompage/Talk, Special:Random/Template.
- Random redirect
- Special:Randomredirect : redirects to a random redirect pages.
- Recent changes
- Special:Recentchanges : The latest edits in the project. See Help:Recent changes.
- Related changes
- Special:Recentchangeslinked : It works only if the target is specified. See Help:Related changes.
- Redirects
- Special:Listredirects : lists all redirects.
- Search
- Special:Search
- Short pages
- Special:Shortpages - pages in the main namespace, with size (of the wikitext excluding that of templates used) in bytes, in order of increasing size
- Statistics
- Special:Statistics : total number of pages and users
- System messages
- Special:Allmessages : Displays all pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
- Uncategorized categories
- Special:Uncategorizedcategories
- Uncategorized pages
- Special:Uncategorizedimages : Images without category tags (note that after adding a tag to a page refreshing this page does not immediately reflects the change)
- Uncategorized pages
- Special:Uncategorizedpages : Pages without category tags (ditto)
- Uncategorized templates
- Special:Uncategorizedtemplates : Templates without category tags (ditto)
- Unused categories
- Special:Unusedcategories
- Unused files
- Special:Unusedimages
- Unused templates
- Special:Unusedtemplates
- Upload file
- Special:Upload : Upload a file to the wiki.
- User contributions
- Special:Contributions : Requires a target user: e. g. Special:Contributions/Jimbo Wales
- Users
- Special:Listusers : A list of all registered users. There also is Special:Listadmins, which is a redirect toSpecial:Listusers/Sysop.
For some project families, notably Wikia, this applies for the whole family.
- Version
- Special:Version : Shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
- Wanted categories
- Special:Wantedcategories
- Wanted pages
- Special:Wantedpages : Articles which have been requested / most wanted, specifically those that have at least 2 incoming links, but do not exist.
- Wiki matrix
- Special:SiteMatrix : list of all projects
- What links here
- Special:Whatlinkshere : It works only if the target is specified. See Help:What links here.
