User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: May 13, 2015/@comment-24473195-20150514125229/@comment-452-20150515131252


 * If contributors are too lazy to fix one single problem in a special page then that is a real community problem.

I agree, and I think it's a larger cultural issue. Breaking new users out of the common patterns of Bystander effect, Somebody Else's Problem and Buck passing can be difficult, as well as dispelling the concept of "ownership", and promoting the concept of "working together", which can be hard for some cultures.

I also don't think it would be too much of a problem, just that Wikia would be unlikely to implement it.

And don't worry, I know you were suggesting a feature rather than a user-level javascript solution. I'm actually a little surprised no-one misunderstood and replied telling you "that's against the TOU!".

It's a shame there isn't a PAGESINSPECIAL to go along with PAGESINCATEGORY. Even the API doesn't simply return a count.

You could adapt my maintenance report script to count each list of special pages and automatically update either a Template:NumberOfWantedPages template, or newarticletext directly.