Talk:Yellpedia

Site Statistics are completely wrong
To whom ever,

I love the concept of this site and in general think it's a great thing, but sadly your statistics about my site, yellpedia.com, are completely wrong. The issue is the way the Mediawiki software does page counts. It's a fault of the design of the magic word, which only counts a page if it contains one wiki link or is categorized to at least one category. Normally for wikis that grow organically this is a perfectly justified method, but we at yellpedia.com uploaded, via a special script, the entire contents of the United States Yellow Pages. This created over 10 million pages, not the 1400 our current statistics show us as having. Part of this problem is when we created all those pages we did not record them to the category tables in the MYSQL -- this happens when someone edits and saves a page for the first time. Not sure how this can be corrected on this site, or if could be, since this data is collected via automatic bots so we're leaving this note. Chris Tharp (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2013 (UTC)