Manual:UpdateArticleCount.php

updateArticleCount.php is a mlink>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance script which updates the ac>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Article count|article count.

Usage
php maintenance/updateArticleCount.php

It will only count the number of articles and output the result, without updating the value. If you want to actually update the site statistics table, use this command:

php updateArticleCount.php --update