On 2/23/07, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Amazing: You were very tempted to block them because they were causing too much traffic, but it still didn't occur to you to simply add the count to the Special:Contributions page, thereby peacefully rendering them obsolete?
First of all, there was no edit count until just recently. Second of all, people aren't just interested in edits, they're interested in edit *stats*. People will still want to know things like how many are article/user talk/Wikipedia:/etc. So if we want this to be faster, we should fix enwiki toolserver replication (if it's not fixed now, I'm not keeping tabs on it) so that the queries can be run directly rather than in tiny chunks interspersed with who knows what unnecessary queries.