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Click the "edit this page" link (above) to start this page and to tell people what this wiki is all about. You may wish to copy the introduction from its linking page on the Central Wikia as a first version.

MilestonesEdit

• November 6, 2008: 1 week since establishment, the 100-article mark was reached, Valentina (Italy), was created by CoolPikachu at 23:58 (UTC).
• December 5, 2008: The 300-article mark was reached, Fiore e Tinelli, was created by Tavisource at 21:33 (UTC).

Article countEdit

What does MediaWiki think an article is? The MediaWiki code is as follows:

# Would the given text make this article a "good" article (i.e.,
# suitable for including in the article count)?
function isCountable( $text )
{
	global $wgUseCommaCount, $wgMwRedir;

	if ( 0 != $this->mTitle->getNamespace() ) { return 0; }
	if ( $wgMwRedir->matchStart( $text ) ) { return 0; }
	$token = ($wgUseCommaCount ? ',' : '[[' );
	if ( false === strstr( $text, $token ) ) { return 0; }
	return 1;
}

This means that any article that is in the main namespace (i.e. not prefixed with As the Bell Rings Wiki: or Help:) that is not a redirect that has a link (or at least a [[) is considered a countable article -- since virtually every article, even the stubs, have a category link, this can be considered a very inclusive article count.