User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: September 20, 2011/@comment-876022-20110920222542/@comment-876022-20110922064107

Since it was implemented, the list only changes when someone searches for a non-existent page (hence the reason for Black ibis (559) being there since August 23rd. It has not refreshed at all to remove created pages, only add to the list of red links and the hits to each non-existent article.

A search will only add to the number in parenthesis if it is still a non-existent page, thus it is only good for seeing what pages need to be created (mostly redirects).

A blacklist of terms needs to be implemented. I am unsure about what Wikia thinks about it, but I'm not amused to see profanity being searched and the corresponding red link in that list being added to each day. Not that special pages are followed by web crawlers, but I'd like to see if it could be done.