Module:NUMBEROF/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Module:NUMBEROF.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original module page.

This Lua module is used in MediaWiki:Statistics-files-desc.
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This module depends on the following other modules:

Module:NUMBEROF implements templates {{NUMBEROF}} and {{Wikipedia rank by size}}.
It includes sub-modules Module:NUMBEROF/data, Module:NUMBEROF/rank, Module:NUMBEROF/other and Module:NUMBEROF/meta which are used once per page [not per template invocation]. These sub-modules pull data from Wikimedia Commons:
- c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab for classification of wikis,
- c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for statistics of all wikis,
- c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/rank/*.tab for rankings of languages in each project.
- data.tab, meta.tag and rank/*.tab are updated by a bot multiple times each day.
The module was originally developed on Enwiki.