[Wikipedia-l] User Contribution Tracking

[Michael R. Irwin]

Hi All,

I have been inactive a while.  Can someone tell me whether the user
contribution page is going to return to listing contributions or is it
going to stick with the recent changes format of within last 30 days? 
Was this change due to a performance issue or as a result of refactoring
the wiki software?

Personally I found the old format extremely useful in quickly browsing
to subjects that I had previously found interesting and was able to
contribute to.  It was also fun/useful to be able to see a list of my
contributions without me having to build and maintain a list manually. 
Easier to find skimpy entries or augment articles of interest with
additional information.

It was also useful on the occasion a few months ago when I was labeled
<b>TROLL</b>.  In response to my defensive reaction to this offensive
allegation, Rgamble actually looked up a few of my contributions and
affirmed that he/she thought I was contributing more than I was damaging
and that he/she therefore did not consider me a troll.

As things stand right now on the contribution page he/she would have
been unable to respond semi-quantitatively due to an inability to easily
audit a random sampling of past contributions.

mirwin