Help:What links here/sl

Na robni letvici vsake strani najdemo tudi povezavo »Kaj se povezuje sem« (ali natančneje, označeno z besedilom v MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere), imenovana tudi povratna povezava.

Na strani uporabljene oblike so:
 * Special:Whatlinkshere/Pomoč:Pomoč
 * [ prikaz], na tem projektu: [ prikaz]

Ta možnost prikaže seznam vseh z izbrano stranjo povezanih strani v istem projektu.

Možnost je še posebno uporabna za iskanje sorodnih člankov v naslednjih primerih: A se povezuje z B, vendar je v okviru B premalo uporaben za povratno povezavo iz B na A, pa tudi na podteme B ni nobenega članka, v katerih bi bil A zadosti pomemben za povezavo. Ali taka težava obstaja, je odvisno od pravil projekta. V slovenski Wikipediji sta tak primer npr. Marjana Deržaj in Ljubljana.

Mogoče je določiti število prikazanih strani:

Po privzetem je omejitev 500. Kadar določimo omejitev čez 999, se samodejno zmanjša na 999.

Omejitve
Na seznamu niso naštete s stranjo samodejno povezane podstrani.

Preusmeritve
Povratne povezave, ki so preusmeritve, so označene kot take.

Prikazane so tudi povratne povezave preusmeritev, in kadar tudi te vključujejo preusmeritve, tudi njihove povratne povezave (nadaljnje ravni preusmeritev pa ne).

S tem vam orodje omogoča iskanje nedelujočih dvojnih preusmeritev, ki jih je, razen v posebnih primerih (glej spodaj), bolje nadomestiti s preusmeritvami na končni cilj.

Primeri vključitve
Ali se A povezuje s C, je pomembno tako za povratne povezave, kot za Sorodne spremembe. Kadar C ne obstaja, pridejo v poštev le povratne povezave.


 * Vključitve so posebej omenjene.
 * Povezava z A na C šteje kot taka, tudi kadar v wikibesedilu A ni izrecno navedena, in je prisotna zaradi vključitve B, ki se povezuje s C.
 * Kadar A kliče B in je v B povezava na C v oznakah noinclude, se s C povezuje B, ne pa tudi A.
 * Kadar A kliče B in je v B povezava na C v oznakah includeonly, se s C B ne povezuje, A pa se.
 * Kadar A kliče B in se B povezuje s stranjo C, ki je odvisna od spremenljivke ali parametra, velja naslednje:
 * Vprašanje, ali se s C povezuje A, je odvisno od vrednosti spremenljivke na strani A oziroma parametra, s katerim A kliče B.
 * vprašanje, ali se s C povezuje B, je odvisno od vrednosti spremenljivke na strani B; v primeru parametra z vidika strani B stran morda npr. ne kliče veljavnega imena strani (ker kliče ime z oklepaji), zato se B ne povezuje z nobenim veljavnim C oziroma imenom, ki je odvisno od privzete vrednosti parametra.

Thus a link from A to C may be due to the inclusion of B, even when B, considered by itself, does not link to C. Thus, to find out what templates cause pages to link to C, it is not sufficient to check for templates in the backlinks of C.

If some pages link to C due to the inclusion of B, it is more convenient if B is in the list of backlinks of C. One can assure this by putting an appropriate example of usage of B on page B, inside noinclude tags (B includes B, but without recursion).

Otherwise a page like B, which causes pages which include B to link to C, can only be found by looking for pages which directly or indirectly are included in these backlink pages of C.

Examples:
 * Template:H:f calls Template:h:f . Considered by itself that is the unused Template:H:f Template ,
 * This page Help:What links here links through Template:H:f to Template:H:f Help, . This page is therefore a backlink of the latter, but Template:H:f is not listed.

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, which links to C, A is in the list of backlinks of C but B1 is not.

Summarizing, 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 chain of redirects.

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
The backlinks 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.

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

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 the wikitext  does not provide a link and only produces a blank space (perhaps depending on the browser, here it produces " "), but for "What links here" it works as a link, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help 2. This could be useful for a special-purpose category that should not clutter the regular list of categories a page belongs to (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 the requirement that the category subject is prominently discussed in the article).

Similarly an empty template can be used: displays as ""; see Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help 3.

Also a link can be provided, alongside the pseudo-link, Help 2 gives " Cat:Help 2", or in the template:  gives "".

Except in the case that the link is put in the template (it can also be put alongside the template tag), a redirect can specify a supercategory. As opposed to actual categories, the backlinks can show a tree structure: 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-subcategories (for each a list of pages and a list of sub-sub-subcategories), but not the contents of the sub-sub-subcategories, up to three levels are shown; see Cat:Help and Cat:Municipalities of the Netherlands.

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.