Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5558012-20140603170819/@comment-452-20140603224434

Nothing else ...by default.

It is possible for other namespaces to be marked as "Content" namespaces. Community Central is a prime example of that. There are not   main namespace pages here.

Also, by default, pages require a link and a comma in order to be counted. I'm unsure whether this can be changed by request on Wikia - I requested it and it was not done.

I've had numerous problems with the article count over the years, it was "off by 1" for a number of months, and Wikia Staff were never able to get to the bottom of it. The count eventually became in line with reality, but I'm unsure whether the problem was fixed, or if it's still counting one imaginary page while ignoring another valid page.

I recently had some problems with the cache - it is not in line with the SpecialPages cache. I was moving pages out of the main namespace which should have been counted, but the count was not updating immediately - but always became updated within 24 hours.

Another problem I was having at the time is that Disambiguation pages were supposed to be excluded from the count, but they were still being counted, and Staff couldn't figure that one out either.

Check out Manual:Article_count for more info.

So, in answer to the OP:
 * Yes, other namespaces can be counted by request.
 * You most likely added a comma to the pages you edited, which caused them to become counted.