Magic Number for Pages in Category

Question

Does the Wikitreee instance of Media Wiki support a Magic Number for the number of profiles in a given category?   

I am trying to do some metrics on a one name study and would like to use the magic number to keep track of changes without having to pull up the category.

Media Wiki has a description of this variable:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words

I tried to use it to display the number of pages in the Category:North_Carolina but it didn't seem to work.  

Other magic numbers like {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} and {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} worked fine.

Comments

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Mostlinkedcategories will give you a list of categories ranked by number of profiles in them.

And that list doesn't include page counts for subcategories.

Answer 1

WikiTree uses mediawiki 1.11 so that will not work.

I have that number based on daily dump of the categories.

You can get it here.

https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTCatNavigate/Category.htm?Category=North%20Carolina&Levels=0

It is one of the numbers in the report

I can also make some more useful page where the numbers can be returned in JSON on clear ASCII or whatever. Just let me know what exactly do you need. I was thinking of tracking category sizes on my end, but it is 220K+ of them and I decided not to. The numbers don't change that much.

Comments

Ales,

Thanks for the suggestion,  That is the link on the Category page that I use for counting the number of profiles in Categories to perform metrics on my Name Studies and Place Studies.  It is a manual process to copy the number and plug it into a Wiki Table on a Space page or profile to show metrics for Studies.   It is better than paging through the category and adding the number of profiles per page.  It would be nice to have some pages that show metrics for things like places, surnames names, military units, time periods, etc. to give the users a sense of progress being made in creating profiles in Wikitree.  For instance, I have discovered that we now have more profiles for persons born before 1800 in several counties that I follow than persons born in the 1800s or 1900s.  I also discovered there are more profiles for Revolutionary War soldiers in North Carolina than most other states.

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I created some metrics for those interested in identifying US Revolutionary War Veterans and cleaning up those profiles already identified.  

[[Space:American Revolution Wikitree Profile Metrics]]