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By default, a new page in the main [[Help:Namespace|namespace]] (the one without a prefix like "User:" or "Talk:") will be counted as an article in the [[Special:Statistics|statistics]] and the <nowiki>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</nowiki> [[Help:Variable|variable]] (on this project it currently gives {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}) if it contains at least one wiki link (e.g. the text "<nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki>"). 

Before this count was used, an article was counted if it contained at least one comma. That method proved to be unreliable in many languages where the comma does not have much or any significance (see [[m:Article count reform]] for the process which led to this outcome).  However, the comma count is still common in the wiki world; see, e.g., [[MeatBall:BiggestWiki]].