The code that determines if a page is a legitimate article is:
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Article.php?view=markup>
=== code begin ===
/**
* Determine whether a page would be suitable for being counted as an
* article in the site_stats table based on the title & its content
*
* @param $text String: text to analyze
* @return bool
*/
function isCountable( $text ) {
global $wgUseCommaCount;
$token = $wgUseCommaCount ? ',' : '[[';
return
$this->mTitle->isContentPage()
&& !$this->isRedirect( $text )
&& in_string( $token, $text );
}
=== code end ===
So not only links make a page an article, but also a category, an
interlanguage link or an interwiki link. Also a <nowiki>[[</nowiki>.
It only checks if the string "[[" is found in the text. Only the text
directly in the page. Templates are not incuded here (or it seems to
me).
2008/1/16, Chris Stafford wrote:
> 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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