On 2/26/07, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
From my experience, for every ten Special:Contributions requests made, eight or nine are just to find out the raw edit count, and the rest are used to find namespace distributions, edit summary and minor edit usage. So, displaying user_editcount on Special:Contributions will cause scrape requests to take a substantial hit...
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?
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.
Steve