Changes happened in patch r778516, but seems Lucas forgot to update relevant system message. I could submit a patch for that :)

Change 789728 had a related patch set uploaded (by Stang; author: Stang):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Update message "unconnectedpages-summary"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/789728

Thank you!

I think an alternative we should consider is to remove the mention of the sort order completely (instead of changing it to “ascending”). The descending sort order was an intentional feature at the time; the ascending sort order isn’t really a feature on its own, but is rather dictated by the requirements of the database query, which has to be efficient. What do you think?

This change is fine for Wikipedias, but for projects with many pages which are deliberately unconnected (eg Wikisource) is this problematic.
Yes, is possible to add magic word to every subpage, but there are some subpages for connecting (eg poems) and some for not (chapters), so this pages must be selected manually

See also T143295

Our current plan is to sort only by descending page ID temporarily, and later sort by ascending namespace and descending page ID. So I recommend either removing the mention of the sort order from the message entirely, or to make it a bit more vague, e.g. “newer pages are listed first” (without specifically mentioning the page ID).

@Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE: Considering our future plans removing the sort order from the message makes sense. Thx for bringing it up!

Change 789728 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Update message "unconnectedpages-summary"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/789728