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...
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: Andre Engels [mailto:andreengels@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:54 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot edit rates
2007/2/25, Timwi timwi@gmx.net:
Andre Engels wrote:
Are you suggesting that because people want "more than just X", they shouldn't even have X?
I think he's suggesting that giving them X through another means will
not
stop them from using edit count bots if what they want is more than X.
And how is that a reason not to let them have X?
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.