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==Wiki engines capable of generating popular pages==
==Wiki engines capable of generating popular pages==
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===MediaWiki===
===[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]===
On wiki sites powered by the now ubiquitous [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wiki engine, the output which displayed the view count of every page on the wiki in its page footer; along with a numerically ranked listing of the most viewed pages on the wiki was found on a special page called <tt>Special:PopularPages</tt>.  This was previously enabled by default as part of the core MediaWiki software package.  However, this feature was subsequently disabled within the MediaWiki core with the release of {{Mw|MediaWiki 1.25#Hit counters removed|MediaWiki version 1.25}} (MW v.1.25), although all hit numbers prior to v1.25 were retained in the database of the individual wiki site.  In order to re-enable the <tt>Special:PopularPages</tt> on a wiki site using MW v.1.25 or later, an additional {{Mw|Manual:Extensions|extension}} from MediaWiki called {{Mw|Extension:HitCounters|HitCounters}} is required.
On wiki sites powered by the now ubiquitous [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wiki engine, the output which displayed the view count of every page on the wiki in its page footer; along with a numerically ranked listing of the most viewed pages on the wiki was found on a special page called <tt>Special:PopularPages</tt>.  This was previously enabled by default as part of the core MediaWiki software package.  However, this feature was subsequently disabled within the MediaWiki core with the release of {{Mw|MediaWiki 1.25#Hit counters removed|MediaWiki version 1.25}} (MW v.1.25), although all hit numbers prior to v1.25 were retained in the database of the individual wiki site.  In order to re-enable the <tt>Special:PopularPages</tt> on a wiki site using MW v.1.25 or later, an additional {{Mw|Manual:Extensions|extension}} from MediaWiki called {{Mw|Extension:HitCounters|HitCounters}} is required.
===[[:Category:PhpWiki|PhpWiki]]===
'MostPopular' is the specific page name used by [[:Category:PhpWiki|PhpWiki]] to display a listing of page views.  Simply add <tt>?MostPopular</tt> on the end of the wiki site URL, eg. <tt><nowiki>http://YourWikiURL.org/wiki/?MostPopular</nowiki></tt>.


==See also==
==See also==