• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14237 ***

test5555 wrote:

I rather see a magic word that's there just for media. Commons needs primarily this, not all others.

This should be a param for PAGESINCATEGORY to allow the following syntax:

• {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat}}
• {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|all}} - as alias for the first one
• {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}}
• {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|subcats}}
• {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|pages}} - this number is not stored in the database, but should be compute by "all - files - subcats"

test5555 wrote:

If {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}} ever gets implemented, {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}} could be an alias for this. bug 14237 dates from 2008, so it seems unlikely that it will ever get done. There isn't really a clear use for most other cases anyway.

If {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}} is implemented, {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}} could be an alias for {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}}.

gerrit 12790 is successfully merged

You can use {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|files}} or {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|files|R}} or {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|R|files}} to get the count of files inside the category.