User blog comment:Devilmanozzy/Wikia needs to bring back support for WikiFactor numbers/@comment-1277243-20130920222103

I'm not an expert on MediaWiki, but my guess is that they're using Squid to cache pages. This skews the counter and makes it unreliable, so it's best to turn it off.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDisableCounters