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How can I return the ACTUAL number of pages in a category? Using the {{PAGESINCATEGORY:...}} template returns the number of pages AND the number of sub-categories in a category. E.g: this template uses the code {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Disease}} and returns (currently) 121. But the actual category has 105 pages and 16 sub-categories.

Any ideas how to exclude the sub-categories without just using {{#expr: {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Disease}} - 16 }} as this will not be true once new sub-categories are added. Thanks OllieMartin 11:04, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

The problem is, MediaWiki considers a sub-cat a page, and thus a member of the category -- RandomTime 11:30, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

So is there any code to return the count of a particular name space within a category so we can take that figure from the total? OllieMartin 11:55, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

If you have the Semantic MediaWiki extension enabled, {{#ask:[[Category:Categoryname]][[:+]]|format=count}} should return the number of main namespace pages in the category. Ose ^{Talk • Contribs} 14:53, September 12, 2010 (UTC)