Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3996578-20160212010633/@comment-1757994-20160212070420

I'll assume you really mean edits, not articles.

MediaWiki numbers all edits (revisions) starting at 1 and incrementing by 1. You can see the revision IDs by going to Special:RecentChanges and hovering over the  link. The URL contains a  query parameter. The value of that parameter is the revision number across the entire wiki, so it includes edits to articles not in the main space (e.g., articles in the MediaWiki: space).

New pages also get a sequential revision ID, although RecentChanges doesn't display it in a link text. Image uploads don't necessarily count as edits. Posts to message walls and article comments, if your wiki has them, do count as edits.

If you want to find out what your wiki's 1000th edit was, you can use. Note that if the 1000th edit was on a page that has since been deleted (or hasn't been created yet), you'll get an error. For example doesn't exist, because, whatever the page was, it has since been deleted.