On 16/04/06, Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That number probably derives from MediaWiki messages
(MediaWiki namespace).
On 4/16/06, Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:
> a freshly installed wiki, with almost no content:
>
>
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics
>
> shows "There are 1,386 total pages in the database.".
My (slightly dubious) experiments back this up - attempting to get a
line count of
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&ot=php
I ended up with a figure of 1719 - too high, I know, but the point is
there are a lot of pages here. If you're not aware already, MediaWiki
stores all its interface elements as pages in the database for easy
translation/customisation; this page lists them all. The other figure
on the statistics page has a number of rules to define what counts as
an "article", and gives a more interesting figure - still more than a
million on the English Wikipedia I believe!
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]