[Wikia-l] Quick question -- Special:Statistics arithmetic

[Angela]

On Jan 16, 2008 3:20 PM,  <rsw154 at psu.edu> wrote:
> MediaWiki:Sitestatstext says
>
> > There are '''$1''' total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages,
> pages about
> > {{SITENAME}}, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't
> qualify
> > as content pages. Excluding those, there are '''$2''' pages that are probably
> legitimate
> > content pages.
>
> How is the number of stub pages computed?

In this case, "stub" means an article which doesn't have a working
internal link. It's not related to the length of the page. Only those
that do have a working link are classed as "legitimate content pages".

Angela