Community Suggestion: Establish back-link between images and their articles
Establish back-link between images and their articles
Content Addition · Images & image management · Created by PensiveFatherfigure
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently if one has pictures in their gallery that they havent named adequately or can hover over in an article, the images will be hard to find, save for searching the whole gallery, which especially since the update is difficult due to it only loading in small batches. This makes pictures which are portraits or cover images incredibly hard to find if they have not been appropriately named in gallery upon upload.How does this feature request address the current situation?
With this feature, if an image is used in article (as header/character image or pasted into the text), the image or the images's gallery description would hold the information about where it is currently being used and would maybe show this as a list. so one would be able to search the gallery by article name and find any images pasted into/used in the article and such.Follow up
wanted to clarify that yes, if you can find out the image ID in the bbcode if the image is pasted into a textbox or side-bar, however this doesn't apply to images that are selected as a character portrait, organization crest or are in an article header. the only way to "find" those images if they aren't properly named is to re-download them from the article and add them anew (which unavoidably causes it to be in the gallery twice) if you want to have them findable. this feature would also as mentioned by others be useful to find images that go unused or might be misplaced or in wrong use in an article <3
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! While we see why this would be useful, we can't accept it because of technical constraints. Backlink look-ups are extremely heavy on the database as they require a complete scan of your world all at once every time the feature loads.
Current score
20/300 Votes · +4603 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by PhilosoShy
on 2026-02-26 19:06 -
+1
by AuraGuard
on 2026-02-22 15:30 -
+300
by ss2020
on 2026-02-21 21:59This would be helpful to remove images not in use anymore, freeing up space on WA. I am doubtful it is possible though, but these WA folks have worked miracles before.
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+300
by AmélieIS
on 2026-02-20 10:00 -
+300
by Dragolithic
on 2026-02-19 07:09 -
+100
by Lemmylou
on 2026-02-18 18:12 -
+1
by Asmo
on 2026-02-17 02:35 -
+300
by TerminusV
on 2026-02-15 23:54 -
+300
by Kyberian
on 2026-02-14 18:52Gods, yes please. Ideally, I'd like each image in the Images tab to have a list of links to all the pages it appears on
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+300
by bphilippe
on 2026-02-13 06:41 -
+300
by Frostifjell
on 2026-02-12 17:04 -
+100
by LittleRaider
on 2026-02-11 19:22 -
+100
by CowWarrior
on 2026-02-11 00:31 -
+300
by A Goodhearted Kobold
on 2026-02-10 14:15 -
+1
by Jupiter Melichios
on 2026-02-09 22:00 -
+300
by A Wild Velociraptor
on 2026-02-07 07:20 -
+300
by shyredfox
on 2026-02-06 21:15While we can technically search for an image with bbcode in the search bar, having a more static list will really help if you need to update an image or add something to go with that image.
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+300
by Comic Book Lady
on 2026-02-06 13:55 -
+300
by WeStanNikolai
on 2026-02-06 13:16 -
+100
by John Anthony
on 2026-02-05 17:24 -
+300
by PensiveFatherfigure
on 2026-02-05 09:24
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