Forum:Disambugation pages are added to list of articles

Every time I make a disambugation page in my wiki, the page gets added to the list of articles. How do I remove them from the list of articles and make them like redirect pages?


 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 03:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you show us an example page? --Uberfuzzy 04:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think for the system to know it an actual disambiguation page, it has to use the template thats defined on http://computersecurity.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage --Uberfuzzy 04:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I think he's mistaking redirects with disambig :,.
 * I think he should not have reverted the edits for the other user, it was ok.
 * But i may be mistaken. — TulipVorlax 06:59, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I am not mistaking redirects with disambiguation pages. I am just using redirect pages as an example because they do not get added to the number of articles when I create them.

The number of articles still increase when I create disambiguation pages even when I add disambig at the page.

Here: w:c:Computersecurity:Comodo (disambiguation) and w:c:Computersecurity:Kaspersky (disambiguation)


 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 18:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think he's talking about  . He may not want disambiguation pages to count in a wiki's article count. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 19:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You got it! :)
 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 19:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

What should I do?
What should I do next?
 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 21:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Reconition of disambig page seems hard coded into the software but since it use the content of MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage, the behavior can be adapted. But you said you are using the right template name. There could be a bug, but i can't confirm the behavior about disambig page since i never care about them be counted as real articles or not.
 * What i dont like on my part is that "sub pages" are counted (i.e. a page named something/subpage or something:subpage when the first part is not a real namespace).
 * But why are you caring to give a false impression of the wiki having a bigger number of pages than it should ? Isn't this encouraging users to participate ? When users see a wiki with 10000 articles they're more inclined to contribute to it thant when the wiki has only 100 articles.
 * But yes, i'd be glad if we had more control over what our wikis see as an article or not. — TulipVorlax 00:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Just to make things look neater, but I wouldn't mind if the number of articles is exaggerated if this can't be fixed. Thanks for the help.
 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 01:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)