Manual:$wgDisableCounters
 | This feature was removed completely in version 1.35.0. |
| Statistics and content analysis: $wgDisableCounters | |
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| Disable page view counters. |
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| Introduced in version: | Before 1.1.0 |
| Deprecated in version: | 1.25.0 (Gerrit change 150699; git #90d90dad) |
| Removed in version: | 1.35.0 (Gerrit change 579769; git #81a31e16) |
| Allowed values: | (boolean) |
| Default value: | false |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
$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.
 Warning: | Once disabled you will lose the correct view counts forever! |
Alternatives
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! |
See also
- Extension:HitCounters - extension as an alternative for MediaWiki 1.25+.