Not exactly the same, but attempt to reduce the redunduncy in checking new pages exist on English wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol
I think problem is not the redundancy, but the human resource. There aren't just enough people doing it.
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