for all those interested, i found the answer to ryan's original question.
i spent some time digging in the source and talking to some people
(*cough*Tim*cough*Starling) in #mediawiki on freenode last night

short answer: it doesnt, its just some jargon text written in the days of
old.

long answer: the system only checks for "page" (anything) vs "article" (good
stuff)
*
TimStarling>**uberfuzzy: the answer **to your question **is: a
countable **article
is one with **at least one internal **link, is not a redirect,** and is in a
content **namespace (usually **the main namespace)*

in terms of MediaWiki:Sitestatstext  pages are in $1, articles in $2. any
other text descriptions there defining what either is doesnt really mean
much, its there to help quickly explain the difference to people who dont
really care about the code behind it.

-chris "uberfuzzy" stafford
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