MediaWiki:Gadget-pagecount.js

$( function () {
	var pagecount = document.createElement('div'),
		link = document.createElement('a'),
		pages = document.createElement('span'),
		text = document.createElement('span'),
		actions = document.getElementById('wikiActions'),
		api = new mw.Api(),
		num = api.get( {
			action:"query",
			meta:"siteinfo",
			siprop:"statistics",
			formatversion:"2"
		} );
	
	pagecount.id = 'pagecount';
	link.href = "/wiki/Special:AllPages?namespace=0&hideredirects=1";
	text.textContent = 'pages';
	
	$.when( num ).then( function ( data ) {
		pages.textContent = data.query.statistics.articles;
		link.append(pages, text);
		pagecount.append(link);
	
		actions.parentNode.insertBefore(pagecount, actions);
	});
});