Andre Engels wrote:
It's not, but it might be a reason to spend time on other things rather than on giving the users X. Developer time is not a commodity we have excess of.
Within the time you and others have spent in this thread trying to argue against putting the edit count on Special:Contributions, it could have been put there a million times over.
If nobody wants to do this incredibly trivial thing, do you want me to do it? (I'm asking because I don't want to spend time on installing MediaWiki specially for this just to have someone reject it for some ridiculous reason.)
Timwi