14:02, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - rm)
13:41, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Limitations - update)
13:39, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - 999)
21:28, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick ((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 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
13:11, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
13:05, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 500-limit)
09:33, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrickm (→Cases of transclusion)
08:46, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrickm (→Cases of transclusion)
15:35, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
15:15, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick (→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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→Other uses - mv up)
14:11, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrickm (→Cases of transclusion)
13:21, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
12:03, 13 May 2005 User:Patrickm (→Cases of transclusion)
12:02, 13 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
05:32, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPetersonm (({{handbook sidebar|reader toc}})
11:29, 21 September 2004 User:Patrick (no colon at the end of a header, please)
11:07, 21 September 2004 User:AaronPetersonm (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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (rm dup, http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=John_Smith)
05:51, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (The feature can also be applied to itself and other special pages, e.g.:)
12:53, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick ((excluding subpages that just have an automatic link to it).)
10:57, 25 July 2004 User:Patrick (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 User:Patrick (*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)
