Number of articles on Statistics page of jawikinews should include unlinked articles
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:
Content pages isn't true.
We have 3000+ articles.
Please see https://ja.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:RL#統計.

Event Timeline

The issue is large number of articles have no links to other pages in jawikinews. Either you can add an internal link to them (category, template, interwiki links does not count), or you can modify https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgArticleCountMethod.

How to change $wgArticleCountMethod?

Bugreporter changed the task status from Open to Stalled.EditedMay 4 2024, 4:55 AM

First you need to open a local discussion. When it is concluded (or after a week) post the link here.

Aklapper renamed this task from Statistics page of jawikinews isn't true to Number of articles on Statistics page of jawikinews should include unlinked articles.May 4 2024, 9:17 AM

How to change $wgArticleCountMethod?

For additional information about how article counting is handled, see mw:Manual:Article count.

Change #1038897 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [jawikinews] Set $wgArticleCountMethod to any

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1038897

Change #1038897 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [jawikinews] Set $wgArticleCountMethod to any

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1038897

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-11T20:17:29Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1038901|[ptwikinews] Set atom feed link (T356003)]], [[gerrit:1038897|[jawikinews] Set $wgArticleCountMethod to any (T364189)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-11T20:20:01Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1002> pppery, ladsgroup: Backport for [[gerrit:1038901|[ptwikinews] Set atom feed link (T356003)]], [[gerrit:1038897|[jawikinews] Set $wgArticleCountMethod to any (T364189)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

This will be fixed the next time UpdateArticleCount.php runs on the 21st.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-11T20:30:20Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1038901|[ptwikinews] Set atom feed link (T356003)]], [[gerrit:1038897|[jawikinews] Set $wgArticleCountMethod to any (T364189)]] (duration: 12m 52s)

This will be fixed the next time UpdateArticleCount.php runs on the 21st.

Note that initSiteStats.php (which includes updating the article count) is now run every day.

Oops. I was apparently looking at some old code rather than what is currently done. I should probably stop engaging with Wikimedia-Site-requests since I seem to be constantly making a fool of myself there (not just due to this issue)

"Content pages 3,923"