showbackrefs
Showbackrefs is a label used in software and information systems to refer to functionality that reveals back references to a given item. A back reference is a connection from other items to the selected item, such as pages that link to it, records that reference it, or functions that call it. Showbackrefs collects and presents these reverse references to help users understand dependencies and impact.
In practice, showbackrefs appears as a user interface component or API endpoint. It typically accepts an item
Use cases include navigation, change impact analysis, auditing, and documentation maintenance. In a wiki, using showbackrefs
Implementation considerations: performance is important because back-reference queries may be expensive on large graphs; caching, indexing
See also: backlinks, reverse lookup, reference graph, reverse dependencies.