About 4.1.7 counting auto links to wanted pages, I just checked one of the wanted pages and it says 3 links to it... When I search the wiki for the same term I find many more pages that contain that text (i.e. would autolink to it once created), so it doesn't seem to work there, but I guess that shouldn't work yet (it's part of this request)
Also, on the Special:MostLinkedPages I also checked one of the pages where it says only 1 link, and when I search the wiki for the text I can find 10+ pages that actually autolink to the page in question (not in the sidebar btw). So I guess there is some bug there then? Or have I missed enabling some feature for this?
------------------------
Anyway, back to this feature request:
If/when I create a "wanted page" (either by marking it with [wiki]-tags on a "dummy page", or through some future UI, I would want the following:
1. The Special:Wantedpages shows it with the correct link count (i.e. finding all places where it would be linked from once the page is created
2. All pages that contain the text, would also auto link with "red text" i.e. meaning that it doesn't exist yet.
With those 2 features, it would be really easy to prioritize what to write next, and someone reading any Wiki page would also see that there is a missing page for some subject that they might know about, hopefully prompting them to go write a page about the subject
Does that make sense?