Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Archive/Wanted (by articles) pages

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Wanted (by articles) pages

N This proposal is global

Problem: Difficult to easily see what pages are really missing on the site. Current Special:WantedPages such as voy:Special:WantedPages shows a list that are mainly red links on talk and project pages not main space article pages. Takes a lot of clicking to see which pages are really needed.
Who would benefit: Article authors looking for ideas for pages to create. Clean-up contributors looking for problem links.
Proposed solution: Create a page similar to Special:WantedPages but the number of redlinks shown to only be from mainspace pages and not talk and admin pages. One alternative idea is to make the existing page a table with a column showing number of redlinks from each namespace type (mainspace, talk of article, user page, template, ....) and make it possible to reorder the table based on descending number of each source page type.
More comments: This is not about filtering the page type of the wanted pages but of the namespace of the source of the redlinks.
Phabricator tickets: T208935
Proposer: Traveler100 (talk) 06:18, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately this proposal does not qualify for the 2020 survey because it is global, so I am going to archive it. toolforge:missingtopics and PetScan may serve as short-term solutions. Thanks for participating in the survey! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 16:38, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]