[Mediawiki-l] Total pages (not legit content pages) reporting

[Robert Leverington]

You need to run it from command line, terminal or shell depending on
your system. They are basically the same thing though.

On 28/03/07, Caitlin Dempsey <editor at gislounge.com> wrote:
> This is a total newbie question but how do you run the
> updateArticleCount.php?
>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:17:56 +0100
> From: "Charles Collis" <charles.collis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Total pages (not legit content pages) reporting
>         incorrectly after merge
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hi all,
>
> I have mentioned this issue previously but as there was no response I shall
> have another attempt, this time being clearer and more succinct!
>
> I have an issue with two wikis that I have merged in that the total no. of
> pages in the special:statistics page is being mis-reported,  (please note
> I'm not talking about the 'legitimate content pages' number). Although all
> the page titles do seem to be present when I go to Special:Allpages.
>
> I am concerned that if that figure is being read directly from a table, that
> there may be data integrity issues - can I trust this combined wiki enough
> to make it live and operational? Or is it possible that the figure for total
> number of articles has simply become 'stuck' somehow?
>
> After I ran rebuildall.php all the statistics remained fixed at the values
> they were at before I appended the second wiki, although after I ran
> updateArticleCount.php, the figure for legitimate content page then doubled,
> although not the figure for total no. of pages...
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Regards,
> Charles.
>
>
>
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