[Mediawiki-l] Special:Statistics giving odd result

Wed Dec 28 08:40:00 UTC 2005

I have installed MediaWiki 1.5.4, using MySQL 5, PHP 5, on Windows XP.

It works beautifully!

However, when I request Special:Statistics, I get a huge number 
(18,446,744,073,709,551,614) in the output.

I.e., the page reads:

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MacHershellWiki statistics

There are 1,298 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, 
pages about MacHershellWiki, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others 
that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 
18,446,744,073,709,551,614 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

There have been a total of 423 page views, and 161 page edits since the 
wiki was setup. That comes to 0.12 average edits per page, and 2.63 
views per edit.
User statistics

There are 3 registered users, of which 2 (or 66.67%) are administrators 
(see Project:Administrators).

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I've done quite a bit of searching, but haven't found any references to 
this odd behavior...

Could someone please help me understand this?

Chris