In T229430, we looked at which maintenance templates are available in our target wikis and how many articles are tagged with them. We have a couple concerns:
* Although thousands of articles have maintenance templates, we're concerned that once narrowing to topics of interest, there won't be enough articles for newcomers to work on.
* The target wikis don't all have the same templates. For instance, while they all have some copy edit templates, only Arabic uses a template to tag articles that need more outgoing links.
Because of those concerns, it is worth investigating our ability to supplement the maintenance templates. The one that is highest priority to investigate is the ability to detect which articles need more outgoing links, because we believe that is one of the best tasks for newcomers.
The most basic heuristic would just be to list those articles that have no internal wikilinks at all.
A more sophisticated approach might have rules like these:
* They are greater than 100 characters.
* They have no internal wikilinks in the text of the article (not counting infoboxes).
Or even rules like these:
* They have fewer than one wikilink per 500 characters.
* They have no internal wikilinks in the text of the article (not counting infoboxes).
As an output, it would be good to know how many articles in each of our target wikis fit these sorts of rules. In Arabic Wikipedia, we would also want to know how many do and don't overlap with the articles having this category: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/تصنيف:جميع_مقالات_النهاية_المسدودة