Ok, no clue why the other email came up empty, so trying again...
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(a)gmx.net>et>:
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.
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