Could we have a persons contributions listed on a "Special" page, or someone automatically included in their User page?
I mean, something showing which articles a user started, and which a user has contributed a non-minor edit to.
I find Lirs perpetual updates to her user page annoyingly spammy on the Recent Changes page, and I believe this solution could get rid of that spam.
Jonathan
Jonathan Walther wrote:
Could we have a persons contributions listed on a "Special" page, or someone automatically included in their User page?
Click the "User contributions" link in the sidebar of any user page. For anonymous IP addresses, you'll get this direct from clicking the IP in the recentchanges or history pages.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:22:20AM -0800, Brion VIBBER wrote:
Jonathan Walther wrote:
Could we have a persons contributions listed on a "Special" page, or someone automatically included in their User page?
Click the "User contributions" link in the sidebar of any user page. For anonymous IP addresses, you'll get this direct from clicking the IP in the recentchanges or history pages.
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.
(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)
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