I would be interested to know what the most wanted pages would be if all links from templates were excluded. If I introduce a redlink into a template that's transcluded on 2000 pages, it immediately becomes a most wanted article. I'd also be very interested in seeing this data for other Wikipedias, particularly Spanish (es) and Serbo-Croatian (sh).
2011/9/6 R.Stuart Geiger sgeiger@gmail.com
Thanks for the interest, John! I put the list of the top 250 up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles -- but I didn't exactly publicize it. I guess this is my chance to do so now! Also, a list of the top 1000 redlinked articles is up on a separate page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles/July_2011 and the entire dataset is up at http://toolserver.org/~swalker/redlink_list.csv -- note that it is 42.8mb!
If you have any other questions about the redlinks/bluelinks dataset, feel free to ask me. And you can check out the meta page for more fun links data, such as how many more links we added between 2009 and 2011, or incoming links to articles about countries / each country's population: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:One_Link,_Two_Links,_Red_Links,_Blue...
Stuart
Stuart Geiger User:Staeiou / @staeiou Ph.D student, UC-Berkeley School of Information
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Steven, and the Community Department.
I am instantly drawn to the analysis of redlinks. Can we please have this data!! Article writers are on stand by ready to kill red links ;-)
The special page for this is dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
-- John Vandenberg
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