Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 8 (section)

==Counting number of contributions==
How can one count the number of contributions made by self or others (short of making an SQL query)? I always see people making comments on how many edits a particular person or themselves did, and never could figure out how they got those numbers. On a related note, would it not be more useful if the list in user contribution pages was numbered? I guess I'll make a feature request. [[User:Ato|ato]] 20:27, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:The only way is to go to the contribution list, set the # per page to 500, and count the number of pages, then lowering the # per page as you approach the end. Sorry, [[User:Meelar|[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] [[User talk:Meelar|(talk)]]]] 20:31, 2004 Sep 7 (UTC)

Once your contributions get high (over a couple thousand), thumbing through them even by 500 at a time becomes quite inefficient. If you can estimate your contribution count, there's a faster way that helps minimize the number of page views required to count them:

* Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&offset=RoughEditCount&target=YourUserName (replacing YourUserName with your Wikipedia username, and RoughEditCount with a guesstimate of your contribution count +/- a few hundred)
* Thumb through the results by pressing "Next 100", gradually lowering the number per page as you approach the end (as Meelar said)

As my contrib count increases, I find this technique increasingly more valuable. Your mileage may vary. --[[User:Diberri|Diberri]] | [[User talk:Diberri|Talk]] 04:30, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

:If your contribution are "over a couple thousand" then you're probably listed here: [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits]]. [[User:Paul August|Paul August]] 17:24, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)