MediaWiki:Gadget-pagecount.js

$( function () {
	var topbar, pagecount, pages, output, 
		api = new mw.Api();
	
	function getPageCount() {
		api.get({action:"query",meta:"siteinfo",siprop:"statistics",formatversion:"2"}).done( function ( data ) {
			 var pagenum = data.query.statistics.articles;
			return pagenum;
		});
		
	}
	pages = getPageCount();
	console.log( pages + " 2");

	
	topbar = $("nav ul#top-bar-right");
	pagecount = $('<li id="top-bar-pagecount"><a href="//dogcraft.net/wiki/Special:AllPages"><span></span><span>pages</span></a></li>');
	
	topbar.prepend(pagecount);
			
});