Could the wikitext filter turn a link to a non-existant page into a link to the page creation form, like Media-Wiki does? Perhaps this link could also be colored red in this case...

I can see a problem with the filter cache not updating promptly. MediaWiki solves this by keeping track of page links (working and broken) and automatically rebuilding pages after the link status changes.

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This is, without doubt, a major issue that would require the introduction of an extra table (links) to rebuild the cache properly. Nonetheless, it may be worth it (it also allows for "Most linked to" and "Linked to by" pages), and I would like to give it a try once this project is updated for D6 (adding a new feature to the D5 branch at this point would needlessly complicate matters).