On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:15, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 2/16/06, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So where the hell are all of these new ones
coming from?
Good question! About 35 editors have more than 100 edits to userboxes
(quite a small number of people, really).
If it's possible to extract this information from the database, it would be
helpful to find out who it is that's *creating* all these userboxes--not just
who's editing them. Using myself as an example, I'm probably one of the "one
or two with around 300" edits, but (IIRC) I've only created a single userbox.
My number of edits is in the hundreds, though, because I went through and
subst'd out the {{Userbox}} template in hundreds of existing userboxes; this
was part of a strong push to bring userboxes into compliance with [[WP:AUM]]
(avoid using meta-templates), which was tagged as official policy at the
time. Such subst'ing, as well as the removal of fair use images in
enforcement of item 9 of [[WP:FUC]], would also probably account for much of
other Wikipedians' high edit counts on userbox templates. (I'm fairly
certain that this is the case for [[User:Silence]], for example.)
If it is possible to distinguish between userbox edits and userbox template
creation when querying the database, that might go a long way in figuring out
where these 2500 new userboxes have come from and what they're used for.
(I'm quite surprised at this number, myself.) Perhaps I don't have a good
understanding of the scale of userbox usage, but it wouldn't surprise me all
too much if many of those 2500 (or the 3500 before them) are used on only a
single user page (or aren't used anywhere at all).
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[[User:Jeffrey Smith]] <wikipedian(a)jeffsmith.us>