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