Index: includes/SpecialStatistics.php
===================================================================
--- includes/SpecialStatistics.php	(revision 23011)
+++ includes/SpecialStatistics.php	(working copy)
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@
 			User::makeGroupLinkWiki( 'sysop' )
 		);
 
-		$wgOut->addWikiText( $text );
-
 		global $wgDisableCounters, $wgMiserMode, $wgUser, $wgLang, $wgContLang;
 		if( !$wgDisableCounters && !$wgMiserMode ) {
 			$page = $dbr->tableName( 'page' );
@@ -62,23 +60,21 @@
 			$sql = $dbr->limitResult($sql, 10, 0);
 			$res = $dbr->query( $sql, $fname );
 			if( $res ) {
-				$wgOut->addHtml( '<h2>' . wfMsgHtml( 'statistics-mostpopular' ) . '</h2>' );
+				$text .= "\n==" . wfMsg('statistics-mostpopular') . "==\n";
 				$skin = $wgUser->getSkin();
-				$wgOut->addHtml( '<ol>' );
+				$dirmark = $wgContLang->getDirMark();
 				while( $row = $dbr->fetchObject( $res ) ) {
-					$link = $skin->makeKnownLinkObj( Title::makeTitleSafe( $row->page_namespace, $row->page_title ) );
-					$dirmark = $wgContLang->getDirMark();
-					$wgOut->addHtml( '<li>' . $link . $dirmark . ' [' . $wgLang->formatNum( $row->page_counter ) . ']</li>' );
+					$text .= '#[[' . Title::makeName( $row->page_namespace, str_replace('_',' ', $row->page_title) ) . ']]'. $dirmark . ' [' . $wgLang->formatNum( $row->page_counter ) . "]\n";
 				}
-				$wgOut->addHtml( '</ol>' );
 				$dbr->freeResult( $res );
 			}
 		}
 		
 		$footer = wfMsg( 'statistics-footer' );
 		if( !wfEmptyMsg( 'statistics-footer', $footer ) && $footer != '' )
-			$wgOut->addWikiText( $footer );
-		
+			$text .= $footer;
+			
+		$wgOut->addWikiText($text);
 	}
 }
 ?>
Index: RELEASE-NOTES
===================================================================
--- RELEASE-NOTES	(revision 23011)
+++ RELEASE-NOTES	(working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-= MediaWiki release notes =
+= MediaWiki release notes =
 
 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
 * (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
 * (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
 * (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
+* (bug 9026) Fix heading numbers on Special:Statistics
 
 
 == API changes since 1.10 ==