Well, that was the point of the email that didn't get through. In my experience, 80% of users who request their edit counts via scapers want their edit counts, and nothing more. Those who want really detailed analysis of edit statistics will keep using scrapers, but adding user_editcount to Special:Contributions will cause a significant drop in scraper requests.
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: Timwi [mailto:timwi@gmx.net] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 9:41 AM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot edit rates
Andre Engels wrote:
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.
Within the time you and others have spent in this thread trying to argue against putting the edit count on Special:Contributions, it could have been put there a million times over.
If nobody wants to do this incredibly trivial thing, do you want me to do it? (I'm asking because I don't want to spend time on installing MediaWiki specially for this just to have someone reject it for some ridiculous reason.)
Timwi