Help:Linksearch

Special:Linksearch is one of the special pages which searches for external links. It provides a list of links in external link style that match the given URL pattern. For each link the page in which it is found is listed, along with the exact target of the link on that page.

URL search patterns
The URL pattern can be:
 * a whole top-level domain, e.g. "*.nl": Special:Linksearch/*.nl
 * a second-level domain, e.g. "*.wikimedia.org": Special:Linksearch/*.wikimedia.org; also a third-level domain etc.
 * a full domain name, e.g. "www.wikimedia.org": Special:Linksearch/www.wikimedia.org
 * a full domain name and any first part of the rest of the URL, e.g.:
 * "www.wikiqueer.org/w/a": Special:Linksearch/www.wikiqueer.org/w/a
 * "www.wikiqueer.org/w/March_2007": Special:Linksearch/www.wikiqueer.org/w/March_2007 (the underscore is required, even in the input box)
 * "www.wikiqueer.org/w/March_2007#2007_March_05": /w/index.php?title=Special:Linksearch&target=www.wikiqueer.org/w/March_2007%232007_March_05 (the hash character is required in the input box, and %23 in the URL of the special page)

In the input box "http://" is allowed but not needed.

In the URL of the special page where the search string contains an anchor, or the first part of an anchor name, the hash character # has to be coded as "%23" and the required style is     w/index.php?title=Special:Linksearch&target=URL In each of the styles wiki/Special:Linksearch/target_page_name#anchor_name wiki/Special:Linksearch/target_page_name%23anchor_name the anchor is ignored. ("w" and "wiki" can be different on other wikis.)