Hi, Recently in Wikipedia's help desk another editor and I have asked how to count one's own and/or another editor's contributions. The answer given was to reload the page with different count limits and estimate that way. Somebody mentioned that this would strain the database. I was wondering if it would be possible to turn the lists in "User contributions" and "My contributions" into numbered lists? This way people will not strain the database by reloading those pages with different limits to determine the number of contributions.
cheers,
ato
PS: I have written a similar note at meta's "MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion" page.
On Sep 13, 2004, at 6:21 PM, M Atakan Gurkan wrote:
Recently in Wikipedia's help desk another editor and I have asked how to count one's own and/or another editor's contributions. The answer given was to reload the page with different count limits and estimate that way. Somebody mentioned that this would strain the database.
This is more of a social than a technical issue. Quantity of edits doesn't connote quality of edits, but it's all too easy for that kind of post count to turn into a status symbol. This cheapens the community and encourages clique formation.
So, while we _could_ make it very easy to look up a user's edit count we haven't done so.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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