On 2/27/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like there is a major desire to see some edit count stats. How about a special page, "Special:Editstats" that would just show the edit count, and in some future incarnation, could show all the other stats that people are obviously clamoring for?
Possibly. The question is how long it would take to run all the queries for a user with tons of edits. How long does something like SELECT COUNT(*) FROM revision WHERE rev_user=whatever AND rev_minor_edit = 1 take, for instance?
Incidentally, I tend to hit Special:Contributions quite a lot — it's sort of my "home page" on WP. It's where I go first, and where I return to most frequently, to see if anything has happened to any of the pages I edited most recently. If it's such a heavy drain on resources, perhaps I should reconsider my behaviour.
It's certainly not a drain on resources unless you set edits per page to 5000 and load it a lot. Even then, it's not anything breathtaking, I assume, or else it would be shut off user complaints or no. It's presumably excessive, but not grossly so.