Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:12:15 UTC
Hello, Recently the French-language Wikipédia community has felt the need to get a list of the top 200 linked templates. A SQL query has been performed on the toolserver by pgk. BrokenArrow has told us he had performed the same query for the Italian community recently. We have been discussing about implementing new special pages to include this feature directly into MediaWiki. For the moment, [[Special:Mostlinked]] only deals with pages from the main namespace. Could it be possible to have similar pages (for instance Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, Special:Mostlinkedimages, Special:Mostlinkedcategories...). We were also wondering if these special pages should be admin-eyes only (like Special:Unwatchedpages) . Actually, the reason why the French community wanted to get the list was to check that the most linked templates were semi-protected (to avoid large-scale vandalism). If the lists are available to all users, vandals would know where they should start vandalizing. This is especially true for templates and images, I guess it isn't the case for categories.
[[Special:Mostlinked]] has links for pages in all namespaces, including templates. [[Special:Mostlinkedimages]] and [[Special:Mostimages]] (that's presumably a typo . . .) exist. What you presumably want to be able to do is search Special:Mostlinked by namespace.
Yes, probably; dunno what's easier :)
Namespace filtering in query pages largely conflicts with the query cache for these things, hence the low to nonexistent rate of implementation. Until the implementation details for these can be worked out, it's quite possible that this, and other similar requests, will remain stale.
