One idea is to make the existing page a table with a column showing number of redlinks from each namespace type (mainspace, talk of article, user page, template, ....) and make it possible to reorder the table based on descending number of each source page type.

Part of the issue is that its reusing the generic query page stuff, which only has one count field. So we could limit to say just content namespaces, but its hard to offer all possibilities.

Of course another alternative is to do more specific queries at quarry.wmflabs.org

I suspect that this legacy stuff affects another unwanted result. If you look at any of these local 'Wanted pages' lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Gew%C3%BCnschte_Seiten
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8B

you will see the same picture:

1. Top-100 is filled with boolsheet-like pages of unknown origin (by the way, they are different in different language versions)
2. It is shown that there are 10k-30k-80k links to that pages but if one clicks to the sources one won't find any link, not even in the older versions
3. Somewhere on the list page 3 starts the *really* wanted pages list but nobody reaches it being frustrated by the first 2 pages

So it's obvious that some query collects some irrelevant data from who knows where, and only a developer with a debugger can track and fix that.

Lots and lots of people in every language version of Wikipedia visit Special Pages -> Wanted Pages and get frustrated. This is an important issue.

I'm not sure if I should have created a separate request. Let me know if I should.

Perhaps fixing that query will make possible or will directly enable other mentioned RFCs.

Thanks!

I think Special:WantedPages should be a list of pages by number of redlinks in mainspace only, by default.

In English Wikipedia, WantedPages is misleading, because it counts redlinks in templates that have been transcluded on many pages.

(Should I have made a new 'task'? My request is based on the same problem, but a little different?)