Just a question: have you ever discussed (and where) the possibility to
add Page: (and maybe Index: and Author:) to the defined
ContentNamespaces
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgContentNamespaces ,
$wgContentNamespaces = array (0, 102, 108, 110)) to get those pages
considered by [[Special:Statistics]], {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} and
[[Special:Random]]
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Content_namesp…
)?
Nemo