Tim Starling wrote:
At the time, the user_editcount field had been recently introduced,
but it clearly wasn't sufficient to provide the information users
were looking for, as Simetrical notes.
Hm, you are being a bit ambiguous -- your message /could/ be taken to
mean that the edit count is already displayed on Special:Contributions.
However, I can't see it. Am I not looking in the right place, or did I
misunderstand you?