[WikiEN-l] Most wanted

[Charles Matthews]

On 07/02/2011 15:38, Ian Woollard wrote:
> On 06/02/2011, Magnus Manske<magnusmanske at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about.
>> I hope it will still be useful to some.
> Is that necessarily a problem in this case?
>
> We still will have pages, that are potentially clickable from a large
> number of articles, that don't exist. Even if they're linked from a
> template, they're still likely to be fairly important to be in a
> widely used template.
Yes, it is a practical problem, in that priority will tend to be given 
to redlinks that are in navboxes enthusiastically applied to pages, 
rather than potential articles referred to in text (which is a much 
better test of "wantedness"). It is hard to care so much about such 
redlinks - the navbox in question may well be doing no more than 
mirroring a category, and we don't care that much about "articles 
missing from categories". Put it this way: if the navbox were a list, it 
would contribute once to counting such a redlink, which wouldn't distort 
the priorities in the same fashion.

Charles