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Special:WhatLinksHere: "previous" link only allows to go back once
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Author: Amalthea.wikimedia

Description:
On Special:WhatLinksHere the "previous X" pagination link is broken, it only allows you to get back once.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Main_Page&from=19725&back=15586
The "previous" link on this page leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Main_Page&from=15586&back=15586

Apparently it simply uses the "back" parameter as the new from, but isn't able to backtrack any further; you can thus only get back one page, not more.

I've tried this on an old 1.15 so I'm assuming this never worked as intended.

Reported by [[:en:User:Peter James]], https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=612777264

Version: 1.24rc
Severity: minor

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:26 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz66593.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jun 13 2014, 3:48 PM
• Reguyla moved this task from To triage to Special:WhatLinksHere on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.May 26 2015, 2:19 AM
matmarex merged a task: T118096: "Previous N" link in "What links here" list doesn't work more than once.Nov 8 2015, 7:19 AM
matmarex added subscribers: MBH, Aklapper.
MBH raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Nov 8 2015, 7:35 AM
MBH set Security to None.
Base subscribed.Nov 9 2015, 1:09 AM
Aklapper added a comment.Nov 9 2015, 7:21 AM

The priority of this task was increased.
@MaxBiohazard: As priority reflects reality and does not cause it, could you please elaborate why this task is more urgent? If you increased priority because you plan to work on this task (thanks!) please claim the task by setting yourself as assignee. Thank you for your help!

MBH added a comment.Nov 14 2015, 2:05 PM

I'm sorry. I thought that the task priority determines depending on the significance of the issue. I can't work on this task cause I'm not a MW developer.

MBH lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Nov 14 2015, 2:05 PM
Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Jan 5 2017, 12:55 PM
Liuxinyu970226 mentioned this in T106687: Flow does not support varying language of parts of content based on user interface language (e.g. {{int:}}).Jan 22 2017, 3:20 PM
Quiddity closed this task as a duplicate of T45509: Special:Whatlinkshere's pagination is broken, won't let you get back to the first page after navigating to later ones.Jun 21 2017, 11:34 PM
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