(User contributions page) Jonathan Walther wrote:
Well, that page is certainly useful, but not exactly what I had in mind. I mean, something that doesn't show a list of all your edits, but just a list of articles you have edited, since the beginning of your time on the Wikipedia.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that might be kinda nice.
This could be done, but a) would be obscenely long in some cases :) b) with the current setup, it is *very* slow to query the entire old revisions table checking for this stuff. As in, it takes several minutes and lagifies the whole server.
The current user contributions page is sped up by strictly limiting the number of entries to search only the last couple weeks' woth of edits. Indexing by user ID might help, though...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)