Last modified: 2009-02-14 16:34:02 UTC

Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Wikimedia migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator. Bug reports are handled in Wikimedia Phabricator.
This static website is read-only and for historical purposes. It is not possible to log in and except for displaying bug reports and their history, links might be broken. See T15087, the corresponding Phabricator task for complete and up-to-date bug report information.
Bug 13087 - Organize Whatlinkshere by section (and support transclusion)
Organize Whatlinkshere by section (and support transclusion)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10310
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2008-02-21 02:39 UTC by SJ
Modified: 2009-02-14 16:34 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments

Description SJ 2008-02-21 02:39:45 UTC
For long pages, whatlinkshere organized by section would be most useful... especially as deep linking to sections becomes more prominent.


In particular, for long pages that one wants to scroll through, one often transcludes a number of shorter [sub]pages.  This makes editing and history browsing easier on the subpages, allows direct links to talk and navigation for each subpage, and provides a clean summary view.

However, this plays tricks on whatlinkshere.  If you link to subpages, that info is hidden when checking whatlinkshere for the full page with transclusions.  If you link to sections in the transcluded page, it becomes difficult to figure out which inbound links correspond to which section/subpage.

A good solution to this would both support whatlinkshere sorting/organization by section (which would be useful for all long pages), and/or a separte option to see "whatlinkshere" for both the page and all transcluded pages.  As a matter of fact, this is one place where the difference between a transcluded template and a transcluded page can be put to use : a template is one such that 'wlh' for it is not interesting to the pages that transclude it; any other page is one for which it is likely to be.

(Aside : there should be a 'transclusion' component, not just one for templates)
Comment 1 Nemo 2009-02-10 23:42:59 UTC
See also bug 3241.
Comment 2 Nemo 2009-02-14 16:34:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10310 ***

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.


Navigation
Links