Last modified: 2014-07-05 13:04:58 UTC
Hello! I was wondering if would it be possible to have some special page which lists "the most referenced pages" and "the fewest referenced pages" in the sense of the number of uses of the <ref> tags in those pages. Considering that the information at the wikiprojects should be well sourced, if a page has few or no reference tags at all, it is likely to be a page poorly sourced. Currently, this is situation is indicated manually by adding templates [[Template:Citation needed]] and the [[Category:Articles with unsourced statements]]. Having this kind of statistics automatically generated and shown in a special page would help us to identify the pages which need citation. This should be usefull for other wikis as well. The special page could let us sort the pages by: number of <ref>s, date of creation, date of last edit and so on... Would this be feasible? Helder
Any update on this?
The statistcs could be at special pages like one of these: * [[Special:UnreferencedPages]]: with an interface similar to [[Special:UncategorizedPages]]; * [[Special:PagesNeedingReferences]]: with an interface similar to [[Special:WantedPages]] showing the number of references per article;
The idea of of using the number of citations to predict the quality of an article is also suggested in the FAQ of the ArticleFeedback tool: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Article_feedback/FAQ
Created attachment 15852 [details] adds a page-property which counts the number of citations this is a rather hacky way of counting citations on a page
An alternative to my previous patch would be to place the following line in the if statement instead of the first line: $this->mParser->addTrackingCategory( 'no-citations-category' ); and also add $wgTrackingCategories[] = 'no-citations-category'; and appropriate MediaWiki messages on no-citations-category and no-citations-category-desc
