Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-2234967-20130405192816/@comment-3335785-20130407221717

CzechOut wrote: That's a technically impressive feat, but sorta philosophically depressing. To me, that means that people aren't churning things up creatively on your wiki, or that you're quick to delink things you think might not be worthy of an article. I think in a game situation, like Runescape, you're not trying to define every single thing about the world, so it's maybe easier to see what things would never need an article and what things would. We couldn't, as a direct result of local policy, possibly get to the end of our WantedPages list. Ever. Anything — even garden-variety nouns like hat, car, book, cinematographer, horse, tardis:bank holiday, tardis:April, dog and hospital could get an article at our wiki. So before we even get to defining our obvious subject matter, like Qom VoTivig or Dalek or tardis:TARDIS, we've got to tackle basic things. In that way, we're pretty much exactly like Wikipedia. And their list never clears, even with tens of thousands of contributors. We have so little new features these days, it's not much of a problem. We have an article for every item in the game, and then other things like areas, towns, cities, etc. Add in some umbrella articles (these are the main problem keeping updated) and that's pretty much it. And that's 26k articles straight off. It probably helps we have people who live and breathe recent changes.

Wikipedia don't use WantedPages anymore though. They had it disabled and do article requests something like every 6 months.

@JetCell I'm willing to have a go at cleaning out your wantedpages with my bot User:C&aring;mdroid. Up to you if you want to request a bot flag before I go about it.

That help page link is a common problem though. Whilst there is content on the page it's transcluded from Central so the page doesn't always exist. And then when you link to it, the software flags a page that doesn't exist (because it doesn't) and you have that.

Same problem with MediaWiki pages as they tend to have text in them by default that can exist even if the page is deleted/doesn't exist. They're used regardless though.