Wikipedia talk:User Contributions

Counting User Contributions

I see that to participate in certain activities on Wikipedia(i.e. voting for certain community decisions) requires a set number of contributions(500, IIRC). How can I count the contributions I(or any other user for that matter) have made? Thanks. --Johnleemk 09:42, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You can easily count in 500s by clicking "My contributions" link and clicking the "View next ... results" link several times. Similarly you can count other user's contribution: if you open a user's page (other tnan yours; e.g., mine, then you will see the "User contributions" link. Mikkalai 21:20, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I find thiskind of an od ruling this 500. For instance on the Dutch wiki I have way over a 1.000 edits (over 300 articles started). On the English wiki I barely have over a 100. Then there are some other wikis on which I have between 10 and a 100 edits. So this means that if there is someting on the en Wiki that I am really interested in, I could not vote about it, nor would my opinion be heard?? Waerth 12:38, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Jeez somehow I had thought someone would answer my concern. Waerth 12:06, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It's very rare that you need 500 edits in order to vote. The Arbitration policy ratification vote is the only one I know of. Other votes, such as the International logo vote, have required just 10 edits. You could raise the issue at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration policy ratification vote. Angela . 18:50, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

Contribution statistics

Is there a way to find the current number of contributions of a particular user instantly? The way I do it now is to use the <next n> link successively from User contributions page and using lesser and lesser values of 'n' when the limit is reached until I get a page of 19 or less edits after which I manually count. This method - I found is rather ridiculous , and painstakingly slow. Is there a better way ? Why don't we have a line saying something like Displaying 500-550 of 4832 contributions or something similar. I would even prefer to have the number of minor edits, Talk Page edits, and other non-namespace edits displayed separately. I wasn't sure if there was a reason this has not been implemented yet. If people find this a good idea, can this be a new feature request? Thanks. Chancemill 13:53, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

i do not second that request: that will lead to Slashdot-like karma whoring (i have more edits than you, etc.). Have you seen this list? Anárion 14:08, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yup, I have seen that, but it is not frequently updated and does not contain everybody's statistics on the page. One needs to actually download this (also dated) csv file and do some tinkering with it to find where one stands. Reg the karma whoring problem - it is not that counting the number of contributions is impossible now per se. Actually, I did find a better method of doing it - by approximating the number of contributions in the URL text at appropriate places. I don't think it is going to hurt to make this easier. The reason why I bounced upon this question, was that I found self-evaluation of my own contributions very tricky. For example, how useful was I in the past month? How much of my time here was on content addition and how much on Talk Page wars/niceties etc ? But, that's just me. Anybody else thinking the same? Cheers Chancemill 14:29, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

At a unix prompt, try curl "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&hideminor=0&target=***username in question***t&limit=50000&offset=0" | wc and then subtract 49 from the first number (line count). That's the fastest method I know of. Nohat 18:51, 2004 Apr 28 (UTC)

If that is the way to find the number of edits, probably I'll write up the PHP code sometimes soon:-) --Rrjanbiah 04:32, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have been meaning to add a statistics field to the user table for a while now. A nice big blob, where we can break down edits by hour of the day and by namespace. The current two SQL queries required to count contributions are easier on the database than using Special:Contributions, especially for more active contributors. But it still takes as much as a minute or two. Keeping track in the user table shouldn't be difficult. -- Tim Starling

There may be people who don't want this sort of easy analysis of their edits. Perhaps details such as time of editing etc could be a user preference, so it would not automatically be displayed to others if that user didn't want it to be?

Hmmm.. sounds like a nice idea. BTW, the stats code is ready at my user page :-) --Rrjanbiah 10:46, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Counting Edits

Perhaps this has already been discusseed, but is there an easy way (aside from counting and using fancy offsets on my contribs) to count my contributions? Does this involve running a Perl/Python script? Ilyanep (Talk) 00:36, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Copy and paste your contributions into a file, and do a simple line count. Otherwise there is no other way other than running a database query, AFAIK. Dysprosia 01:17, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The other way is to ask on the pump when a developer is in a good mood. 1195. -- Tim Starling 01:19, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

Haha, thanks a lot, any way for me to do my own check and find which edit was the xth contrib? Ilyanep (Talk) 05:08, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

There is a weekly updated CSV file with number of edits for Wikipedias of all languages, or if you have a lot of contributions check Wikipedia:Wikipedians by number of edits for the top 1000 contributors, distinguishing mainspace and all edits -- Chris 73 | Talk 02:39, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Fine, but what does "en,161,0,527,9,1751,1691,Ilyanep" mean? And what if I want to find the xth contrib (say, the 1250th). Ilyanep (Talk) 05:08, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia_talk:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits#Data_in_the_CSV:

First column: Language code: English
Second column: Main namespace edits: 161
Third column: Number of main namespace edits in the last thirty days: 0
Fourth column: Non-main namespace edits: 527 (that would make your total to 688)
Fifth column: Number of non-mainspace edits in the last thirty days: 9
Sixth column: This week's ranking: 1751
Seventh column: Last week's ranking: 1691
Eight column: User name: Ilyanep

Chris 73 | Talk 05:41, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

First my edit number is over 1000, which got dumped in the wiki transfer thing. Second, gotta get some more namespace edits :D. Third, thanks for the help. Ilyanep (Talk) 05:45, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Here's what I do: I download all my contribs, by changing the number in the URL line so it is higher than 500 (example: Special:Contributions&hideminor=0&target=Antandrus&limit=1000&offset=0 ); then I copy and paste the whole thing into a text editor, and turn on line numbers. You could drop it into Excel or a database program and then query to your heart's desire. While the .csv download gives you your totals, the method I describe gives you a way to get a specific edit number on anything you have done. Antandrus 05:51, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I could script it in VBA. Awesome! — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 06:06, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps a good feature would be to allow the generation of a CSV file of all your edits so it's easier to organize. With one column for all of the following: Minor/Not, New/Not, Date, Article (I seem to be having more ideas at 1:15 AM than I do usually in regular time). — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 06:15, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think that's a great idea! Unfortunately it's a Monday morning for me so I can't improve on it now :-\ Antandrus 16:26, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yay! Well, if you ever have time to do that, please post a note on my talk or somewhere notable so I know I have that power :D. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:13, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Merging User Contributions

I've been editing pages on Wikipedia for about a month now and I finally created an account today. However, all my past contributions are listed under my IP address rather than under my new account name. Is there a way to merge the old user contributions page to the new one? The one I want to merge from is Special:Contributions/67.176.36.191 and the one I want to merge into is Special:Contributions/Solarusdude. If it's possible and somebody can show me how to do that, that would be great.

Solarusdude 02:02, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Likewise. Can someone tell me or help me merge Special:Contributions/64.221.225.232 into Special:Contributions/Dchem? --Dchem 18:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same boat. I forgot to sign in, and made three contributions as Special:Contributions/66.63.88.90. How can I merge them with Special:Contributions/Bob_Stein_-_VisiBone?

Simply Edit count

Is there a piece of code that i can put into my SpecialUserlist.php to get the total Number of Edits beside the User Name ? --193.81.188.250 13:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have a Wikistalker and I'd like to ban him from watching my contribution lits. How can I do that? --T-man, the wise 18:57, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Articles?

If you goto 'my watchlist', and you watchlist an article you've just created, you see an 'N' next to it, just like the 'm' if an edit is a minor one. However, when you goto my contributions, it doesn't give you the N for the edits you made which created an article. This would be useful to count the number of articles one has created (or just to identify them). I don't know who is in charge of what's on that page or whatnot, but I would like to make it a suggestion to the appropriate body... TheHYPO 06:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd second that usefulness, especially for a script of mine.Voice-of-All 22:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thirded, for whatever it's worth. -- nae'blis 14:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]