Wikipedia talk:Editcountitis

message: If it doesn't matter, then why does the list exist at all? It seems to me that since the list does exist, it must have some significance. Ranking people by the number of edits must be important to somebody --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 10:04, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no cabal. Mwahahaha…. — Bcat (talk • email) 14:41, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

text: The list exists because it's interesting, not because is significant. You can see the difference, surely? --Sn0wflake 19:45, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I look at it like Slashdot's karma or eBay's ranking system. It's a sort of validation of the user. The more edits a person has, the more likely it is that that person is making worthwhile contributions. It's good for stroking your own ego, even if it isn't something you could put on a resume. Still, I think the list is significant because it is interesting. Maybe it's just a list of useless statistics, but I think there are probably some people who put a lot of weight on how many edits a person has, regardless of quality. Anyway, Bcat's response was what I was going after - that made my day :-) --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 20:01, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: When people want to count edits, they use Kate's tool, not the list. And they are rarely counted outside of WP:RfA, anyway. Not many actually bother with such trivial statistics. It's fun to see how high you rank on the list (I'm 700 or something close to that), but in the end of the day, nobody cares. Editcountitis is debated a lot, but in reality is far less widespread than people make it seem. It's merely a "OMG!!!!!!! It's teh danger! It's going to kill teh Wiki!" thing. --Sn0wflake 20:23, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

text: (g)old fossils. Enjoyer of World (talk) 04:13, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: ''It doesn't matter how high you rank on the List.''

message: Thanks largely to the orphan talk pages project, images for deletion, and the new speedy deletion criteria for images, I've made use of the deletion button more than 12,000 times since becoming an admin a little over a month ago. *pounds delete button furiously* Coffee 16:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletioncountitis 

message: Except when you're requesting an adminship, no matter how long you've been here for or how good your edits are.  :D  Comics 02:36, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Seriously though" set of paragraphs is very reassuring, except it leads us with one problem. The "not a reliable way to tell how experienced... a user is", is untrue. Though I accept a user can have been on Wikipedia for a very short time and have accrued a vast number of edits, no user can make edits without accessing Wikipedia, and thus, technically, we must have been here for a greater period of time than any of our "Earliest edits" (a constant, but always useful, statistic on, for example, Kate's tools, or a user's individual "Earliest" button.) I believe this paragraph (not the one I'm writing, the one in the article :p) is misleading. Thoughts? Bobo192 05:28, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You do not need to have an account to be able to edit the Wikipedia, thus the number of edits your acount has does not necessarily reflect your experience. Plus, a high number of edits may be the product of a lack of use of the preview button, persistent fixing of minor spelling errors, repeated edits to User space, etc. So yes, it's not a reliable way of telling whether the user is experienced or not, as an experienced user can generally be considered as somebody who knows most of Wikipedia's processes, rules and workings, and who has interacted with the community and forth. --Sn0wflake 02:08, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only that, I have seen users make billions of edits like removing a comma, adding it back in, removing it, adding it back in (see Craig Gannon). So while edit count might be an accurate way of measuring experience, it's not definitive, and can be influenced (I only stumbled upon Craig Gannon by accident, God knows if the user might have accumulated more tha 500 edits in a row had I not noticed and taken some action!). Deskana (talk) 20:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In my experience, people don't usually do edits for no reason at all (editcountitis is effectively no reason at all since it's terribly under-stimulating, especially if you estimate a person's contributions based also the number of months they've edited, since people don't add and remove a comma for months on end).  I think nearly everyone does edits because 1) they feel malevolence towards wikipedia for one reason or another (so they vandalize, which quickly becomes obvious on their talk page), 2) they're interested in at least one aspect of wikipedia (so they contribute to that area), or 3) they're bored, and repetitive stub-sorting or vandal-checking soothes them (which may be an easier way to rack up edits, but it's nonetheless a useful contribution that we couldn't get along without).  --Interiot 22:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel that the quality of the edits are more important than the quantity. Nevertheless, quantity also plays a part (like it or not). Some DO care about the number of QUALITY edits you have made. It reveals to us your commitment and desire to improve this massive project. --Siva1979Talk to me 10:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobody cares how many edits you've made. 

message: The correct spelling of this article's title is editcountosis. Pcu123456789 01:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any references for this? It is the first time I am reading this correct spelling. --Siva1979Talk to me 17:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, i think it's a pun on Senioritis somewhat. -- Chris is me 23:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspelling 

message: Is there really no prize for getting loads of edits.  Isn't the AutoWikiBrowser a type of prize?  You need 500 (main) namespace edits to get registered. At time of writing, I had 165 edits in (main).  Currently I have ….  --Leon2323
 19:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But in the end, there needs to be some way sort of limited franchise for voting, in order to avoid the situation where supporters or detractors of a particular proposal (particularly in regards to deletions) flood a vote in order to receive the result they want. With which method other than edit counts would you propose for this purpose? Chairman S. Talk Contribs 07:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No prize‽ 

message: Is there a tool that counts "new article" creation?--Appraiser (talk) 17:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: user:Interiot had such a tool that ran on toolserver (using an offline copy of the database), but he hasn't been active since July 11, 2007.  -- Rick Block (talk) 17:27, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New article tool

message: You all do know -itis means inflammation, right? Your basically saying your edit count is inflamed. :P Renaissancee (talk) 23:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Inflammation leads to swelling, so you can assume that editcountitis leads to a swollen edit count. -- Atama頭 18:54, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Editcountitis

message: Would it be interesting to add a link to this counter? emijrp (talk) 13:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global counter 

message: I think it will be more humorous if you make a funny cure. Like not eating for 49235908514985923 decades, or something. --SomeDudeWithAUserName (talk with me!) 04:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk about a cure 

message: Is there not a danger that this article could actually encourage what it calls "Editcountitis"? I think that it may have had that effect on me! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 11:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a question about encouragement

message: With all due respect, should it not be pointed out somewhere that quality comes before quantity, so high-quality edits are more impressive than mere corrections of mistakes or suchlike? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 10:57, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Quality before quanity

message: Could there not be similar articles, such as one on "WikiLinkitis"  - the feeling that one must put just about every single substantive word in an article as a wikilink? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 14:47, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Overlinking is mentioned in the manual of style, see WP:OVERLINK.  -- Rick Block (talk) 14:59, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions for similar articles

message: I wonder whether we should remove the section on how no serious injuries or fatalities have been reported. Comments here are welcome. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of the section on fatalities or serious injuries

message: This article seems to have missed out observing how any one with true Editcountitis must feel real glee at the way the Editcounter is now working promptly. At one time, it did not record your edits in the past several hours - now, it seems to have an up-to-date, band on edit count. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Glee at the Edit Counter now working quickly

message: As a regular contributor to Uncyclopedia, I find this page being somewhat offensive. I have done my hardest to avoid adding in any factual information UN any of the articles I have completed on Uncyclopedia. I don't expect to find an article that belongs squarely in the "content-free encyclopedia" being included on a genuine encyclopedia. To that end I ask that any form of irony being included on Wikipedia being immediately removed. Any lack of drastic action and you will be hearing from our legal team  Thank you for your understanding. PuppyOnTheRadio (talk) 04:16, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I find this page offensive.  

message: There is a very easy way to increase one's edit count. Just say, of programmes or events in the news, "currently" or "next week" then change that to last week or to past tense once the event is over or the programme has been broadcast. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 11:19, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Increasing one's edit count

message: Sometimes, what seems to be on "My contributions" is an edit that did not manage to get saved. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:32, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: What happens sometimes

message: Using the Social Science Citation Index, the number of times an author's work were cited is sometimes used as measure of eminence. In the same way, do not some Wikipedians get obsessed not by the number of edits they made,but the number of times messages they left on talk pages were followed by other comments from other Wikipedians? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:36, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Citationcountitis

message: Looking at the history of this article, Rick Block was the one who suggested that no matter you rank on the list you will never catch me -  but he is not even on 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits unless that is a reference to the bot which he operates. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:20, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Me" is not meant to refer to anyone in particular (most definitely not me), just some mythical person that you are competing with - i.e. there is almost certainly someone higher on "the list" who edits more frequently than you do. Zooming out a bit, this page is not meant to be anything other than a lighthearted attempt at humor.  Are you in the least confused about this?  -- Rick Block (talk) 06:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: A Comment on this article

message: The thing which would really annoy people with "editcountitis" is that if one goes to one's userpage and clicks on "My contributions", and then goes down to click on "Edit count", as from February 8 2012 it appears the edit counter has expired. This should go in the article somewhere, if any one knows how to phrase this in a way that will not upset the flow of the article. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The counter has been copied to tools:~tparis/pcount/. benzband (talk) 11:11, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Something which will annoy those with editcountitis

message: Why was it that when I clicked on random article game, I got redirected to Denis Guyer? I did not see the logic here. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:21, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange redirect

message: Currently (as of July 2012) one's last edits in the last 17 hours are still not being counted; this should get mention at something else that will infuriate Wikipedians with this problem. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, lol. That's because of replication lag. benzband (talk) 08:58, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I see you've already added it though. benzband (talk) 09:03, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More problems

message: What's this for? I get the joke, but what's the point of this page? Avengingbandit 21:10, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Umm... 

message: On the page, it talks about changing your username. How do you actually change your username?  Super cuty27 01:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing names... 

message: *"They might have tried to keep their edit-count below 40,000."
What is so special about this number? Or was it chosen at random? Liz Read! Talk! 17:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, how would that work? Do you just stop editing once you reach 39,999? Keeping average edits-per-day below a certain amount strikes me as a more sensible goal. Double sharp (talk) 13:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  40,000 edits? 

message: We need to work on this.
Greedo8 (talk) 18:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you cite a source for this please? Nuvigil (talk) 18:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple issues 

message: Just how there is a test for Wikipediholism, should there be a test to assess Editcountitis in Wikipedia?Vorbee (talk) 18:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Test needed

message: This article says that after your five hundredth edit, there is no prize for your two thousandth edit. Surely there is a "prize" for your thousandth edit, as you receive some notification from Wikipedia when you have made your thousandth edit (I remember that I did). Vorbee (talk) 17:02, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, there are notifications for your 10,000th, 100,000th, 1,000,000th, and 10,000,000th edits. Maybe they should be mentioned in the page? 220.85.41.193 (talk) 02:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Prize for thousandth edit

message: This made my day. Thank you, Wikipedia. :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KrishnaDasMath (talk • contribs) 08:26, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is Amazing 

message: Should we remove the wiki link? It seems not related. —AE (talk • contributions) 14:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[OECD]] 

message: Do you think there is a danger that having this article might encourage Editcountitis? Or might it discourage it? Vorbee (talk) 17:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Encouraging Editcountitis

message: "Becoming a 'New Page Patroller' for the sole purpose of being able to more easily increase your edit count by correcting typos and grammar and spelling errors." Might I suggest that this is a good thing to do? It sort of seemed out of place on the list. --PuzzledvegetableIs it teatime already? 19:29, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Becoming a new page patroller 

message: Please, just as Wikipedia editors sometimes edit solely for a number, do not do things outside of Wikipedia just for the score. Do it for others sake. 184.19.98.82 (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editcountitis outside of Wikipedia 

message: There can be another type: when one tries to hit an edit number milestone (e. g. making edit #2,147,483,648, or the multiple of the nearest ten million, etc.). Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:25, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another type 

message: "Obsessive edit-counting disorder" or OECD. :))
And that's one more edit for yours truly. Not that one is counting, of course.
Oops, better leave a typu here, so I can come back later to correct it... -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:50, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  LOL