Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters

Welcome to the WikiProject for tools and edit counters. Our goal is to organize and coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters and statistics tools. Our primary purpose is to give Wikipedians more tools at analyzing their own edits and others' edits. We primarily strive to offer alternative viewpoints of one's contributions. We are not promoting the use of statistics to judge someone's appropriateness or suitability for any positions; quite the contrary. We are just getting started. Please feel free to join and help us.

List of counters

 * (tools that do not give accurate edit counts for the English Wikipedia are moved to 'Broken Counters' below)


 * MediaWiki features and extensions:
 * Your own edit count is displayed on Special:Preferences (this count includes deleted edits).
 * query.php contribution counter (currently disabled ) (re-enabled now, shows total number of edits only but is cheap on the database compared to other counters as it queries the relevant database field directly. This count includes deleted edits.)
 * Benjamin Peterson's Special:Editcount, not available on Wikipedia
 * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's Editcount found in MediaWiki Subversion (not on Wikipedia, but on Wikia).
 * Toolserver-based edit counters
 * Revision counter, a tool to count edits made to a particular page (one of several alternatives)
 * Kate's Tool, in python. The original and only edit counter for years.
 * Interiot's tool (aka Tool3), a modification of Kate's, in perl
 * Editing Trend Analysis Tools:
 * wikirage What's hot in Wikipedia - This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time
 * Independent edit counters, unaffected by replication lag:
 * Interiot's edit counter, external website, nothing to install, written in perl (aka Tool1, wannabe_kate) (screenshot)
 * Flcelloguy's Tool (screenshot), a Java version of Interiot's tool that does not require the Toolserver's database to be running. IMPORTANT: Versions prior to the current release (v5.10) will not work.
 * The Java Sandbox, where we are all playing with code for future versions.
 * The version table where coders can check if they are running or debugging the latest version of the editcounter by checking the version of their source code components.
 * Help page for the Tool.
 * AmiDaniel's EditCounter. "I needed an easy way to query the number of mainspace edits of users requesting permission to use VandalProof, and as the toolserver's down and Flcelloguy's tool takes too long to do this, I wrote a quick little edit counter to do what I need. With it you can set the number of edits to query (up to 5000) and the namespace to query, which makes retrieval of edit counts much faster for restricted searches (i.e. I typically query mainspace edits with a limit of 500)."
 * Interiot's external javascript edit counter (aka Tool2) (screenshot), currently works with Mozilla and others; does not work with MSIE
 * Gargaj's PHP edit-counter, a rough port of the above perl version; PHP-source to run from your own server. Warning: uses web-scrape methods - please only use infrequently to avoid unnecessary traffic on both the Wiki and your own server.


 * Lupin's javascript counter which uses query.php to download all of a user's contributions without screen-scraping (screenshot)
 * Voice of All's JS edit counter. Adds history page stats too.
 * Ais523's javascript (only counts 5000 edits in each namespace. Can also generate random diffs and count up to 5000 log actions.)
 * Efficient edit counter with no replication lag and minimal load on Wikimedia servers
 * Milestone finds the nth edit of an editor


 * Action counters
 * Counts of administrative actions


 * Broken counters
 * CountEdits by RobChurch (not installed on Wikimedia wikis)
 * Draicone's tool (currently only working for <5000 edits)
 * Interiot's external javascript edit counter (aka Tool2) (screenshot), currently works with Mozilla and others; does not work with MSIE
 * Mike's tool Similar to Essjay's, but working. Currently only working for <5000 edits

Some links

 * Topaz's Wikiscripts, triggers any URL-based counter by right-clicking on a username
 * Edit count
 * Editcountitis

Technical information

 * /Internationalization, describing how to adapt edit counters to wikipedia sites from other languages, especially for HTML-scraping tools
 * Query.php provides a programmatic API for retrieving contribution history that may be preferable to scraping Special:Contributions

Members

 * Tito xd (?!? - help us) 01:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Interiot 04:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * AySz88^ - ^ 05:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Flcelloguy (A note? ) 22:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * M @  th  wiz  2020  01:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Lightdarkness 03:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * P e ruvianLlama(spit) 00:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Shanel 00:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Computerjoe 's talk 11:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * eisenhower [[Image:Banner better than any book.png|100px]] U T C E Q
 * ais523
 *  Voice -of-  All  01:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * AchedDamiman
 * -- Shruti14 t c s 23:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)