On 2/23/07, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Amazing: You were very tempted to block them because
they were causing
too much traffic, but it still didn't occur to you to simply add the
count to the Special:Contributions page, thereby peacefully rendering
them obsolete?
First of all, there was no edit count until just recently. Second of
all, people aren't just interested in edits, they're interested in
edit *stats*. People will still want to know things like how many are
article/user talk/Wikipedia:/etc. So if we want this to be faster, we
should fix enwiki toolserver replication (if it's not fixed now, I'm
not keeping tabs on it) so that the queries can be run directly rather
than in tiny chunks interspersed with who knows what unnecessary
queries.