Wikipedia talk:Special:WantedPages

message: Is there anywhere I can see statistics on failed searches?  For example, I would like to contribute to Wikipedia by making a new page that doesn't exist.  I'd like to choose a topic that other people need.  If there was a compilation of search keywords that users had attempted to find in Wikipedia, but come out with nothing, this would give me somewhere to start from instead of looking at the "requested pages".  --Tomhannen 22:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics for failed searches

message: It seems to me to be beneficial for the Wantedpages report, to exclude user pages, and when generating rankings, to exclude links from user and talk pages.
For example, The Gilded Palace of Sin has 81 links, but almost all are from the Talk pages of other albums.
:True, true, BUT what if someone says "I noticed you added (data here), but should it be put into a new //different page, article name here?" or something like that? Then that linking and request is lost and no-one can fill it unless they happen across the originating talk page. Certainly User pages themselves can be excluded, but in some cases the Talks shouldn't be. Or, at least, that's my POV! Master Thief Garrett 01:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Link count seems odd

message: Pardon me if this request doesn't belong here (and could you tell me where I should write it up?), but I love the RSS feeds in the left-nav toolbox wherever they occur -- and one place they'd be especially fantastic would be for one's watchlist. Obviously this is a development project, so I'd like to suggest it.
i agree with yoou 100% --E123 23:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: RSS feeds of users' watchlists

message: Someone mentioned it before, and I came here thinking the exact same thing.  Why are the links in reverse order? Surely the pages with the most links should be shown first? Brendanfox 11:04, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto. –– Constafrequent (talk page) 05:22, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverse Order??? 

message: Looks like a good den for failed linkspam ^_^ --BesigedB (talk) 23:43, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I know what you're saying. There has to be a way to prevent that. -- Jtalledo 23:43, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just swooned in 

message: Would it be feasable to develop a filter whereby unwanted reds could be hidden? --Oldak Quill 17:41, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filter 

message: I would actually recommend decommissioning this page in favor of Wikipedia:Most wanted articles, which is being kept up to date, is better filtered, and which is going to be much more useful. -- Beland 7 July 2005 02:42 (UTC)
:replace rather than decommission. Move Wikipedia:Most wanted articles to Special:Wantedpages. Grutness...wha? 03:26, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I third this notion. thesublime514 (Talk) 01:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fourthed! --Dwarf Kirlston 17:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decommission this page! 

message: I run my own wiki at chronocompendium.com, and I'm about to complete it. I'd like to track down bad links, but the list terminates at the last instance of a wanted entry linked by two red links. Can I have it show wanted pages with only one link directing toward them? --Zeality 21:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you will have to patch the software by deleting the clause "HAVING COUNT(*) > 1" from includes/SpecialWantedpages.php (but leave the trailing quote + semicolon intact). Then you'll get all red links listed. If you mind the resulting "1 links" messages, you can change MediaWiki:Nlinks to "$1 link(s)" or something. --Chrissi 14:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Starting from MediaWiki 1.5.7, this can be controlled by setting $wgWantedPagesThreshold, cf. Bug 5011. By default, this is 1 so all red links are shown. Cool :-) --Chrissi 10:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making it to show red links with only 1 link? 

message: It would be better if it did not include missing user pages or sub pages of them, as it creates a highly placed "wanted page" for any missing/deleted user pages tahat are pointed to by multiple talk signings.
Looked at "Wanted articles" - seems to be rather thin compared to this, presumably provided by intervention rather than by automation.
Ranting on, but looking for 1-link pages does have a point - many 1-links may be mis-spellings that could be fixed by correcting the link to point to a page which is present.  Ace of Risk 14:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just came here to make exactly the same point. User pages and even the odd user talk page are starting to clog the list up. It would be good if they were excised from the list. Grutness...wha? 12:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ditto. 71.193.99.44 04:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: User pages

message: What does the cross out mean in the list? Bud0011 21:23, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just guessing but…it looks as if it's automatically added when an entry on the list is no longer a red-link: this is probably because the list is very expensive to refresh, so making it obvious that an entry is out-of-date is more efficient in the meantime. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 08:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cross out 

message: It would be nice if links from templates would be ignored, currently the list is filled up with those .. regrettable. -- User:Docu
:I agree. The current number one on the list (Peter Harvey) is actually only linked in 13 articles. With all the links from the project templates the page is completely useless when one is looking for articles that really need to be created. Right now it's really nothing more than a ranking of most used project templates. --Fritz S. (Talk) 18:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be a two-tear list, it should state links first followed by links through templates, or perhaps simplier, instead of showing every link of any given template it should just note, also apperas on template:x. any thoughts?qrc 01:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates filling up list

message: # I agree on that link counts are odd : there were over 4,197 links pretended to honest leftmost branch, making it rank # 11 (at least from last update (21-Oct-06) to today), but I can't find any...
# I think it would be most useful if one could browse the Wantedpages by Category of articles linking to it: that way e.g. a mathematician (etc.) can see more easily what pages from his field are wanted, and maybe create them. — MFH:Talk 19:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  comment & suggestion: view by category 

message: Pleeeeeease can we have one! There is so much other stuff to wade through to get to a factual type non-showbiz non-fiction non-political type article.
Yes: sciences pure and applied engineering, trades, construction, just useful facty stuff
No: fiction, showbiz, politics, music, art, fashion, etc etc
TabbyTabby 03:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the motion Mitch Ames (talk) 12:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Random non-fiction page link wanted on the left

message: I suggest changing the page Wikipedia:Special:Wantedpages as follows. Full redirects to special pages do not work, so the result of the current page is the view of the redirect as shown (not redirection as was probably intended).
MarkupResult
Current
#REDIRECT Special:Wantedpages
 Special:Wantedpages
Proposed

Soft redirect  This page can be found at Special:Wantedpages.
— BigNate37(T) 22:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done —Mets501 (talk) 20:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soft redirect? 

message: Why are there no articles in the list? --Majorly (Talk) 17:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Still?Garrie 23:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Look up a bit at What THE or similar. Templates result in spamming of this page so it's been turned off. Personally - I think the spamming isn't in itself a bad thing it should just turn up somewhere else.Garrie 23:25, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Most wanted articles is a good replacement 89.0.55.96 06:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's up with this page? 

message: I don't understand, why isn't this used anymore? → C Teng [talk] 02:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, it seems it is not refreshed in most languages. Where can we find the answer to the question "why"? Avjoska (talk) 13:33, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not refreshed 

message: I believe she deserves a Wiki page given her notoriety...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by PunkMaister (talk • contribs) 00:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: article request can be made at WP:RA. - -[The Spooky One] | [t c r] 03:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want to request a page for Puertorrican model [[Maripily Rivera]]. 

message: Where can I find a list of options for Special:Wantedpages?  Thanks in advance.  Robinson weijman (talk) 09:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Options? 

message: Could someone please change this from Special:Wantedpages to Special:WantedPages? —C Teng(talk) 13:12, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soft redirect caps 

message: I am from Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. i want a portal for my country. There are portals named Basque,Kosovo and Macedonia. And there should be a portal for TRNC. Thank you for reading this message. Maverick16 (talk) 15:48, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Portal should be added 

message: I am having problem with my mediawiki installation (getting Internal Server Error when viewing Special:WantedPages) so I checked the English Wikipedia and it seemed that it is not refreshed. I want to do the same to my installation.
How you do it? Thanks. 04:32, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to manually refresh this page 

message: Why do we still have these pages listed and available if they are not being updated? Seems kind of useless to list "special pages" that are no longer accurate, either remove them from the special pages list, or make them functional.--UnQuébécois (talk) 18:17, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I second this. It seems rather pointless to have ones that have not been updated in several years. Timeoin (talk) 07:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also agree. Paucabot (talk) 06:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No longer updated 

message: add a picture to the page pokemon chaos black  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Z19pghost (talk • contribs) 19:31, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  picture need 

message: please put a link up on the page pokemon chaos black  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Z19pghost (talk • contribs) 19:33, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  links needed 

message: The problem with wanted pages right now is that the listing is calculated based on total links. But when you click the link number, you find out most of the links are from talk pages which have no link from the page. Apparently if a page is requested in a single template, thousands of links get generated for that Wikiproject Template. For example, Joseph Adler got listed on a single Wikiproject page and the apparent result was 15,063 links to the page, even though not a single article actually links to it. So my suggestion is that Wanted Pages be listed not by total links but article links specifically. --7157.118.25a (talk) 01:21, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for Calculating Wanted Pages 

message: This is a big link at the top of my contributions page because I have the Content Translation beta feature enabled. Once this feature becomes official, it will be prominently linked from everyone's contributions page. Gparyani (talk) 18:22, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can this be updated more often? 

message: Can explain with more words how these articles are selected?. Are from internal or external links (i.e. from Google)?. Thanks in advance.--Lagoset (talk) 10:40, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain 

message: Add :Category:Redirects to special pages Dpleibovitz (talk) 22:39, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 31 May 2018 

message: Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask for this (I couldn't find the MediaWiki page (besides the summary at the top)), but this page isn't very useful if the top pages say 79,000 because they're mentioned in a template used on the talk page of every single video game article. It'd be a lot better if the number of links only counted those in mainspace. Anarchyte (work | talk) 13:35, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The place to ask would be at phabricator.  It's been asked for before (phab:T6572, phab:T8011, phab:T8896) but as far as I can tell, not in earnest since 2006.  That seems ripe for a re-ask as far as I'm concerned!  The most likely solution is at phab:T6204, which is trying to get namespace selectors for all special pages, but that's been stalled for over a decade. ~  Amory (u • t • c) 19:50, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Deactivated edit request as there is not a specific edit to make here. — xaosflux Talk 23:00, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove talk page mentions 

message: Wanted pages should be changed to a redirect to Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles, and the latter should be updated. The list currently at Wanted pages is pointless, because, as many editors have now pointed out on this Talk page, the link counts are complete garbage. As a result, the list is garbage, a waste of everyone's time, and may even discourage editors to help improve Wikipedia. --77.173.90.33 (talk) 23:05, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong agree. Really there should be a revitalization project for WP:RA and this should link there Mach61 (talk) 05:12, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wanted pages is garbage

message: Wikipedia:Special:WantedPages has been listed at Miscellany for deletion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. Mach61 22:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete MfD nomination