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First X links of what links here should also be in short pulldown at top of page
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Author: miroslavk

Description:
The "What links here" special page is very useful. It will be even more useful
for navigating back to previous pages during maintenance/editing if there was a
short pulldown at the top of the page that let you select a page to return to.

The problem is that after editing a page the browser "back" button gets you to
the edit window instead of the referring page. For large pages and slow
connections, this can be a pain. You can use the "what links here" page to
return to your original referring page, but that's a multi-step process. If
there was a pulldown menu toward the top of the page, then you could just select
it there for most pages. This pulldown would be most logically right-justified
on the same line where the navigation path is left-justified. To keep it short,
it might be best to limit the pulldown to the top 5 or 10 most recently modified
or frequently referenced pages.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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ayg wrote:

I don't understand what you're asking here. What page(s) would the pull-down
menu be on? What would it contain?

z9z8z-wps wrote:

Browsers I know have such a menu built into or close to their back (and forward) button.

miroslavk wrote:

Mocked-up screen-grab of the feature

This is a rough mock-up of what this RFE might provide. A pull-down menu with
"what links here".

Attached:

WikipediaRFE.jpg (720×960 px, 69 KB)

miroslavk wrote:

I don't understand what you're asking here. What page(s) would the
pull-down menu be on? What would it contain?

I'm mostly using the MediaWiki for an intranet application. There are
lots of nested pages:

[[Foo]] --> [[Foo/Bar]] --> [[Foo/Bar/Baf]]

The RFE is asking for the "What Links Here" pulldown to be available on all
pages where it makes sense. Attached is a doctored screengrab of an example.
This is a "nice to have" feature, and may not make sense based on the overhead
of generating and populating the pull-down. The browser back button pull-down
is useful, but doesn't do the same thing. Please let me know if that doesn't
make sense or you'd like more information.

ayg wrote:

Ah, I see. I expect that would require an extra query for every page load,
unless what-links-here is cached (which I doubt). That's until we get Ajax in
MediaWiki, anyway. So probably not going to be a default option in standard
MediaWiki, but you can always hope. :) Or you could write an extension, if you
like, for your own use at least.

Why?

Do it in popups or something

But really, this is a useless idea