This feature is used in extension
HitCounterssince REL1_25+.
$wgDisableCounters
determines whether or not to update the number of times a page has been viewed. If $wgDisableCounters
is set to false, each page will have a counter in its footer saying: "This page has been accessed 256 times."
This setting also determines whether Special:PopularPages
is available.
The initial value is false
. To override the default value, add the line $wgDisableCounters = true;
to the file LocalSettings.php
.
The value of the counter is updated in includes/WikiPage.php
in the function doViewUpdates()
. (In a previous version, this was includes/Article.php
in the function incViewCount()
.) The variable $wgDisableCounters
is also referred to in other script files.
If you are using squid caching, you will want to disable these counters, as squid caching prevents mediawiki from seeing all requests, which makes these counters inaccurate.
If performance problems due to high hit counts updating the page
table is a concern, a less dramatic alternative to disabling them may be to tweak $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
.
You can also retrieve such statistics through your apache (or squid if using squid caching) request logs.
Disabled in 1.25.0. See Removing hit counters from MediaWiki core and other alternatives.
Warning: The update to MediaWiki version 1.25 will cause the loss of view counts forever, if extension HitCounters is not installed!RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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