Strictly speaking this isn't the same thing - Andrew West's list is "pages which have been requested but don't exist", ordered by traffic, and may not (probably does not?) reflect actual redlinks on the wiki.
(As an example, the top five includes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Martine_Dalmas and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Zofia_Palak - as you can see, the only appearances of that link are in lists like this...). Most of this traffic will originate externally, I presume.
In terms of actual redlinks, there is an intermittently run report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages (and similarly for other wikis) which is based on the number of actual redlinks in the wiki - actual traffic is ignored. However, this can be skewed by template links - if one widespread navigational or administrative template includes a link, then that appears much more popular than you'd expect.
The link for "Colin Bradshaw" there, for example, comes about because the maintenance template on the talkpages of all bird articles transcludes a to-do list, which included a link to it as a requested article.
Before you ask, it's not currently possible (or at least not without heavy analysis) to figure out which inbound links are in "real" page text and which are in templates ;-)
Andrew.
On 27 May 2014 18:15, Alex Druk alex.druk@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew West maintain a list of popular redlinks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TOPRED
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all --
We've received a request for a list of red links. I've been told we can get this list from the link table.
Does anyone have any more information on this?
thanks,
-Toby
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