They are ordered by page_id, so roughly older pages (in order of creation)
will appear earlier (*it is more complicated than that, but look at the
source code for details): includes/specials/SpecialWhatlinkshere.php .
There is not a record of the timestamp of when a page link relationship was
In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted? The follow doesn't seem to be
by date-used or name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Retired
I'd like to get a list of reasonable recent ones for a in-class project