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Here's an autogenerated (but alas, not autoposted) list of recent new topics, as of about 8 pm 5th April, Wikipedia server time

These are some new topics from the past couple of days:

1980s -- 1990s -- A.E. van Vogt -- AOLamer -- Alan Alda -- American Revolutionary War -- American football/Glossary -- American football -- Ampere -- Batch job -- BrucieBaby -- Calendar -- Candela -- Censorship -- Cladistics -- Community card poker -- Condensed matter physics -- Cosmology/Inflation -- Cosmology -- Creationism/Talk -- Defensive team -- Dianetics -- Dual space -- Economy/Inflation -- Economy -- Existence -- Fantasy sports -- Fixed Point -- Flamebait -- Floating Point -- Football dead -- Football down -- Football goal -- Football play -- Football player -- Football tackle -- Forward pass -- Gregorian Calendar -- Hypoxia -- Internet troll -- January -- JohnnyUnitas -- Johnny Unitas -- Kelvin -- Killfile -- Kilogram -- Kishka -- Lateral pass -- Line of scrimmage/Talk -- Line of scrimmage -- Married with Children -- Methodological naturalism -- Metre -- Mole -- Monty Python/Talk -- Monty Python -- National Football League -- Nazi Germany -- Off topic -- Offensive team -- Philosophical naturalism -- Physical constants -- Physical quantity -- Propaganda -- SI base unit -- SI derived unit -- SI prefix -- SI supplementary unit -- SI unit -- Scientology/Talk -- Scientology -- Seafood/Talk -- Second -- Single Precision -- Skinheads -- Soccer -- Splintering -- Splitting poker pots -- Standards and Units -- Stud poker -- Superconductivity -- Tensors -- Topic creation -- White elephant -- Why Wikipedia is not so great

I was prompted to write the script by the comments listed below. Whether a file is new is judged by the date of its first version, so a page that'd been redirected is likely to appear here as a new page. The a later version will do some size analysis, so large new entries are distinguished from one-liners. Any other suggestions? -- Malcolm Farmer

It'd sure be nice if this page could be autogenerated... It list topics that fit the following criteria:

Newly created within the past week, and...
Contains at least 1k worth of text (a dozen lines or so, not just a "stub" entry), and...
Has fewer than 12 total edits (else it's already popular, and not really "new")

-- Bryce

Great idea, although I'd favor only the first two criteria myself.

You can find new wiki pages by going to "Recent Changes," which is at the top and bottom of every wiki page.

What you really want is a "Recent Changes" page reformatted in a slightly different way. All the information you specified is already present in Recent Changes, just perhaps not formatted in the way you like. The point about fewer than 12 total edits may be a bit misguided though - formatting on the Wiki is not as intuitive as we might like to think, sometimes it takes 4-5 "edits" just to get it right for the first time. You may want to say something like "4 or more edits by different people" or something like that.

The latter paragraph sounds completely right, particularly the part about the new topics being a reformatting of the "recent changes" page. But the recent changes page doesn't really serve the purpose for which we want the new topics page; i.e., we don't just want a recent changes page; we want a new topics page too! :-)