Backlinks: an issue & a suggestion

Question

Backlinks - what pages link here - are an interesting feature. Using the markup described in an answer to my previous question on the topic you can see for example a short list of the profiles, pages & categories linking back to the profile of the famous ornithologist, J.J. Audubon:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Wiki:Audubon-1

However, once there, if you click on wiki:Audubon-1 in either location you see it at the top of the page, that will go to a page at https://wiki.c2.com/?Audubon-1 that never loads. The only way back to the profile page you came from is to page back on the browser. Is there a way to correct this? (There is not a similar problem with the backlinks pages for Space: pages.)

The suggestion is to put "Backlinks" or "What links here" into the dropdown list for the profile number being viewed. This would facilitate use of this feature across the site, and eliminate the need to add the URL for backlinks to the text of the profile.

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Good suggestion, Don!

For what it's worth, there's another existing issue. If you click on the "(← links)" link next to a profile, e.g. Trudeau-450, you get an Error 404 Page Not Found. This doesn't happen for Space pages, like Space:North Dakota, where the "(← links)" link works correctly.

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Thanks, Jim. Looking at the URLs it seems to me that these have the same root cause. The genealogical profiles on wikitree are accessed via .../wiki/<profile #>, whereas the backlinks page is accessed with an added expression with a colon, i.e. .../wiki/Wiki:<profile #>. The category & special pages already use such an expression (Category: & Special:), so the backlink pages don't add anything. So I'm wondering if .../wiki/<profile #> isn't technically a shortcut (and a helpful one) for the longer URL with the Wiki: element?

So maybe the backlinks function would  have to be recoded to recognize & use this shortcut?

Answer 1

Notice the c2 in the URL? That suggests it is either an external service, or an untested/unused feature. You might want to attract the tech people by adding 'bugs' as a tag to your question.

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Thanks. Done!