Out of interest, where's the request from? On 27 May 2014 10:17, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

Aha. Andrew, good catch :). It should be perfectly possible to generate this in an ad-hoc fashion for this request using the pagelinks table: the query is simple enough to write. Want me to just add it to my to-do? On 27 May 2014 10:56, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

Thanks Maarten -- Gerard do any of these work for your use case? Cheers, -Toby On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>wrote;wrote:

What's an 'academic exercise' in this context? ;). If what you're looking for is not limited to redlinks, I'd suggest giving some examples of other heuristics that could be used to detect people not finding their desired destination, and then we can go "yes, we have that!" or "no, we do not have that!". On 28 May 2014 01:05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation