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Add category count to Special:Statistics
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It would be nice if https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Statistics listed the number of categories on the wiki.

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Add categories count to SiteStats and SpecialStatisticsmediawiki/coremaster+22 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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• MZMcBride created this task.Jul 19 2019, 10:50 PM
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• MZMcBride mentioned this in T228554: Add pages per namespace counts to Special:Statistics.Jul 19 2019, 10:52 PM
DannyS712 subscribed.Jul 19 2019, 11:29 PM

Do you mean the number of pages in the category namespace (making this a part of T228554) or the number of rows in the category table? Also, potentially related: T37758

• MZMcBride added a comment.Jul 20 2019, 12:22 AM
In T228553#5350672, @DannyS712 wrote:

Do you mean the number of pages in the category namespace (making this a part of T228554) or the number of rows in the category table? Also, potentially related: T37758

Either would be fine, they're about the same counts. I filed two tasks because one task could be done without the other, in theory.

matej_suchanek moved this task from To triage to Special:Statistics on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Aug 25 2019, 3:56 PM
Gopavasanth claimed this task.Feb 23 2026, 6:12 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 23 2026, 6:12 PM

Change #1242454 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gopavasanth; author: Gopavasanth):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add categories count to SiteStats and SpecialStatistics

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1242454

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 23 2026, 6:12 PM
Gopavasanth added a comment.Feb 23 2026, 6:17 PM

Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1242454

@MZMcBride, @DannyS712 Tested locally, and it works. Please let me know your feedback.

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