Tech:More special pages features

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Moved from en:Wikitravel:Feature requests by Evan

Is there anyway to list pages that are not in the main namespace by using a special URL variable like ... &namespace=namespace& ... in the special pages URLs? If not present can it be implemented?

Also at the risk of going overboard with special page features, I am thinking it would be useful to have a couple more special pages.

• Only Child pages - Could list all (main namespace) pages that only have one (main namespace) parent page linking to them.
• Solo Parent pages - Could list all (main namespace) pages that link to only one other (main namespace) page.

These two features would reveal potential orphan pages and dead-end before they occur. Essentially, I believe that if a page does not link to or from 2 or more pages then the content of the page can be included in the other linked page with no loss of utility. Limiting it to the main namespace is necessary to exclude the noise generated by talk pages and project pages. This would also identify pages that have {{stub}} and {{disamb}}iguation messages on them but not other links. -- Huttite 22:49, 23 Jan 2005 (EST)