I don't know of any web-based tool, but it seems simple enough to
write. But for now, scripting or no? This can be done through the
API, it just takes a single query if if the number of edits is less
than 500 (or 5000 if you're a registered bot or admin). If it is
more, you need to call the API again and pass a 'continue' parameter
to get the rest of the results, which most of the bot frameworks and
API implementations automatically support. The basic query is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&uc…
If you're retrieving it by a script, it should return an array of all
the edits, which you can easily count. Though you don't need to write
a script to count the number of edits -- you could just copy/paste the
API results from a web browser into Excel or OpenOffice Calc and it
will treat each new line as a new row, so just look at the number of
the last row. By the way, if you haven't used it, the API is pretty
awesome once you get the hang of it (docs at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API), and I pass parameters to it from a
web browser all the time.
The copy/paste trick also works if you go to Special:Contributions and
manually select, copy, and paste a list of edits. Before I got into
the world of APIs and scripting, I did this far too often for my own
good. You can select a Month/Year in the interface to begin listing
edits and a direction to go in (earlier or later), but there is no end
date. And FYI, you can edit the "&limit" parameter in the URL to get a
max of 5,000 edits per page, and set the "&offset" parameter to more
finely control the date/time. If you have more the 5,000 edits, you
can use the interface to count off blocks of 5,000s, and then
copy/paste to Excel for the remainder.
Stuart
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Andrea Forte <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all - I have poked around on toolserver but I
don't seem to see a
tool that generates a list/count of user edits for a particular date range.
Does anyone know if such a tool exists?
i.e.: Show me andicat's edits/stats for july 2005 through september 2007.
(Unless I missed something, none of these do it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_edit_counters)
-andrea
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