Manual talk:WantedPages

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I’ve found that I can transclude Special:WantedPages using double-curly-braces ({{Special:WantedPages}}), but the result is an in-line comma-separated list, not a vertical numbered list like you see on the page itself. I figured out that I can specify how many pages to list with a slash ({{Special:WantedPages/6}})... is there another parameter that would let me specify the list format?

I tried manually reformatting it using StringFunctions ({{#replace:{{Special:WantedPages}}|,|<br>}}), but this just produced an empty string. Does anyone understand why that doesn’t work?

Wanted pages don't update right. Google tells me that's a problem in many places. Even on this wiki it has a comment that it isn't updated but cached ~a day ago. How can I implement this on my own mediawiki? Or are there other solutions?

Edit: I fixed the page on my wiki by running Manual:rebuildall.php - is that the best solution, though?

Though this is a four year old thread, it's one of the first in Google for this issue. I was able to fix it by running UpdateSpecialPages.php.

You are correct. I never updated this ages ago, but I ended up adding Manual:updateSpecialPages.php to the script I run as a cron job every night to do some of the housekeeping the wiki doesn't seem to do automatically.