User:Iritscen/PageCountAudit: Difference between revisions

NUMBEROFPAGES is too broad to be useful, but now that the page-count method is 'comma' (or 'all'), I am able to reconcile NUMBEROFARTICLES with PAGESINNS. PAGESINNS in turn reconciles with AllPages, which lists each page onscreen and is thus verifiable by a direct count (which I have done in the past). So to see how the math works out, we can get the directly-verifiable count by using PAGESINNS on all "content" namespaces, and then manually subtracting redirects as counted above.

Same total minus redirects in those namespaces: {{#expr:{{PAGESINNS:0}}+{{PAGESINNS:2}}+{{PAGESINNS:100}}+{{PAGESINNS:102}}+{{PAGESINNS:104}}+{{PAGESINNS:108}}+{{PAGESINNS:110}}-280-0-2-18-46-0-2}}

At the time of this writing (2021-12-13), this gives a total "content minus redirect" total of 919, which is 29 higher than the value (890) returned by NUMBEROFARTICLES. That's an acceptable margin of error, though one that could bear some investigation (I would be curious if the page-count method omits blank or very short pages, which we have a number of). Thus NUMBEROFARTICLES is fit for use on the main page.