On Sep 13, 2004, at 6:21 PM, M Atakan Gurkan wrote:
Recently in Wikipedia's help desk another editor and I have asked how to count one's own and/or another editor's contributions. The answer given was to reload the page with different count limits and estimate that way. Somebody mentioned that this would strain the database.
This is more of a social than a technical issue. Quantity of edits doesn't connote quality of edits, but it's all too easy for that kind of post count to turn into a status symbol. This cheapens the community and encourages clique formation.
So, while we _could_ make it very easy to look up a user's edit count we haven't done so.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)