On 2/27/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)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.