[Wikipedia-l] User Contribution Tracking

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:34 pm, you wrote:
> 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

I just added a link to all of your contribs since Feb 8, 2002. 

--mav