Author: CrazyDreamer
Description:
Upon installation, Special:Statistics gave correct information for the number of "probably
legitimate content pages" (0). During the course of customization, I renamed a few of the
namespaces, and (probably more importantly) moved the Main Page to the Project: namespace (here
renamed Meta:) and altered MediaWiki:Mainpage to point there as well. I then deleted the redirect
created by the move. After these customizations, the Special:Statistics page gave the following:
There are 1,279 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Æ,
minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding
those, there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
Obviously I didn't have 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 pages to be legitimate content. I created a
page in the primary namespace and checked the statistics again:
There are 1,280 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Æ,
minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding
those, there are 0 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
Fine. Now I deleted the page and re-checked; I got the first message again, verbatim. I undeleted
the page and the message did not change. That is to say, after the delete I received . . .
There are 1,279 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Æ,
minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding
those, there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
. . . regardless of an undelete.
I suppose that qualifies as two bugs, actually; let me know if you want me to re-file this report
so that they can be separated.
In case it matters, my PHP and MySQL versions are listed by Special:Version as the following:
PHP: 4.3.2 (apache2filter)
MySQL: 3.23.58
Version: 1.11.x
Severity: minor
URL: http://ash.crazydreams.org/index.php?title=Special:Statistics