I think I know.
Editcount register the edits made by a user. And contributions are the lines of history
with his name.
So, when I rename a page I make 1 edit, but create 2 lines if history (the one on redirect
will be deleted if someone cancel my renaming.
A case when you can have history line anterior to your registration is on history import.
And, as you didn't made the edit it is not in edit count.
That can explain higher or lower editcount.
Regards
Hercule
Le 14 déc. 2010 à 02:28, Raymond Yee <raymond.yee(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
Thanks, Roan, for responding to my post. It did occur
to me I had hit upon an account renaming but I think something else is happening here.
Let me give an example of an account renaming that seems to be the most common:
User:Penrithpanthers was renamed to User:SATidball -- which you can see at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=renameuser&a…
04:53, 3 December 2010 Nihonjoe (talk | contribs) renamed User:Penrithpanthers to
"SATidball" (94 edits. Reason: WP:CHU)
If we look up Penrithpanthers and SATidball in the API, using
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=P…
we get:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<query>
<users>
<user name="Penrithpanthers" missing="" />
<user name="SATidball" editcount="96"
registration="2010-09-25T00:30:16Z" gender="male" />
</users>
</query>
</api>
The old account name is now "missing" and the new account SATidball picks up
the registration date and all the contributions that used to belong to Penrithpanthers.
What happened with User:Katr67 seems to be a bit different. We can find a renaming event
for User:Katr67
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=renameuser&a…
shows
03:31, 18 September 2010 Nihonjoe (talk | contribs) renamed User:Katr67 to
"Valfontis" (53,420 edits. Reason: WP:CHU)
However, the User:Katr67 account is not deleted (as was User:Penrithpanthers). Instead,
going to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Katr67 redirects to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valfontis And we look up both users at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=K…
we get
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<query>
<users>
<user name="Katr67" editcount="4"
registration="2010-12-10T08:09:19Z" gender="unknown" />
<user name="Valfontis" editcount="53627"
registration="2006-01-06T10:23:49Z" gender="unknown">
<groups>
<g>autoreviewer</g>
<g>reviewer</g>
<g>rollbacker</g>
</groups>
</user>
</users>
</query>
</api>
So what's happening with Katr67/Valfontis ?
Thanks,
-Raymond (User:RaymondYee)
On 12/13/10 6:24 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
2010/12/14 Raymond Yee <raymond.yee(a)gmail.com>om>:
In computing statistics for many recent accounts,
I have these assumptions
to be true for the vast majority of accounts. I'm puzzled, however, for
accounts in which one or both assumptions are wrong. An example is
User:Katr67
You probably hit an account rename here. Edits are reattributed for
those, but I guess the editcount isn't updated for that, and of course
the registration timestamp will be different too.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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