Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:52:04 UTC
It would be nice to extend the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} magic word or to create a new magic word whereby we could get a count of the number of pages in any given namespace.
It's called PAGESINNAMESPACE, and it's disabled by default because it's potentially quite slow. Switch it on using $wgAllowSlowParserFunctions if desired.
Much obliged, I thought there was something, but after a light search I couldn't find it. A VERY light search ;) Sorry about that.