I'm confused about how the Special:Statistics page is being calculated. My wiki has nearly 5,000 total pages, many of them user-contributed. Here's what Special:Statistics displays:
There are 4,786 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about WRG, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 26 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
Now I know that there are far more than 26 legitimate pages! I think the problem here is that most of the user-contributed content pages have been placed in custom-defined namespaces. This was done to allow 'advanced' searches on different subject areas, which is not possible if everything is lumped into the main namespace. Is there any way to get the calculation of 'good' articles to include these custom namespaces?
I am concerned about this under-reporting issue not only because anyone checking my Statistics page will get an incomplete picture of my wiki, but also because this calculation is used to rank the largest wikis at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis, and if based on incomplete information, this list is not accurate.
Thank you!
Tim Doyle