More specific than the "what links here" Special page?

[BAMaustin]

I've found documentation saying that the "What links here" Special pages are driven by records in the Pagelinks_table 

But how do I look at this table?  I'm hoping to filter the data to show subsections link granularity. (We have a Glossary page so there are far too many page listed as linking to it.)

The Documention page on the pagelinks table says what the table is, the format & how to regenerate it. But not how to access.

Manual:Pagelinks_table

Category:MediaWiki_database_tables

[Skizzerz]

You need access to the backend server (such as via SSH) in order to directly look at and query the database tables. If you are looking for something more powerful to generate lists of pages on-wiki based on whatever criteria, you can check out the DPL extension. Fair warning though: it's very easy to knock your wiki offline temporarily with a poorly-written DPL query.

[BAMaustin]

Found some Discussions touching this ideas over several years... but no definitive solution:

Authored by Fixuture on Jun 21 2015, 10:44 PM

"What links here" for article sections

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by BAMaustin (see edit history)