Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/Archive 1

message: *Many of the early wikipedians' edits got lost in software switches.
*This table does not show who is most important.  A troublemaker with a bot could rank high (theoretically).
*This table *does* show who needs to "get out more"
*Wikipedians desire a similar page but limited to the previous month/week/year/etc.
*Wikipedians desire a similar page showing changes in rank.
*Wikipedians want this page updated frequently.
*Wikipedians want a similar page by number of bytes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ram-Man (talk • contribs) 03:26, 9 August 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary 

message: Well the time has come after two months:  The page is updated.  Now that I am set up to do it, I will try to run updates at least once a month. -- Ram-Man 22:56, Aug 12, 2003 (UTC)
:Could you, by any chance, be persuaded to do weekly updates when the database dumps are updated? ^.^ I'd like to help out with that myself, too, but haven't been able to get MySQL to do tables of more than 4 GB in size on Windows XP. -- Schnee 15:24, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: Honestly I scrolled blind to the bottom of the page, and started scrolling up. Cross my heart and hope to die, by the stump and stone, I did think my strategy of staying just below the radar for this update had worked (well, yeah, I was slightly dissapointed at the same time, failing would have been a nice thing in some perverse way too). But then after actually passing my username on the way up (August 8 for the update, and my contributions show about 1400 right now), scanning it again on the way down: ***KERBLAM***. Geez, 1777 is almost as nice a number as 144. Befudledly yours -- Cimon
:Well you "only" need just over a thousand edits to get on the list.  That is not *that* much for a dedicated user! -- Ram-Man 23:52, Aug 12, 2003 (UTC)
::Depends on how much you've been contributing, I'd say. -- Schnee 19:00, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  No: 144. That's Gross! 

message: So Michael has made over 1000 edits, and is in the top 200? Despite his hard ban? I shake my head in amazement....
Arno 03:55, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: When every edit you make is reverted so you can make it again, it must be pretty easy to rack up the edits! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 07:24, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael 

message: BTW, if someone does intend to update this sometime, maybe it would be a good idea to include some 500 top contributors at least. We have a lot of new active contributors... -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 11:17, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)
:Sounds good to me.  A lot of users on that list seem to rank far lower than they should...  Pakaran. 15:03, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Top 500

message: How does someone get to know number of edits he's made ? Jay 10:15, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pretty much a case of clicking on the "my contributions" link on the left menu and counting.  There are various ways of making it a little easier - one way is to click on one of the "view" numbers (across the top of your contributions list) and change the "offset" value in the address until you find the end point.  Another is to cut and paste the list of contributions into a text editor and number the lines (or the last page of your contributions if they are many).  But the quickest way is for me to tell you that you have made 1480 edits as of now .  Good work :) -- sannse (talk) 20:45, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: sannse thanks for the steps. Was wondering if there is an easy way to get the number of edits information. Like you go to the "my contributions" page and the number is there displayed for you. It should be an inexpensive database query I guess. Jay 08:10, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: The page does say "compiled with data from August 8, 2003".  As I understand it, the list is prepared manually from a database query.  That's why it is so out of date.  The regular stats have better information - , although that doesn't include non-active Wikipedians or edits to non-article pages (and I'm about to slip off the end... Aghhh!) -- sannse (talk) 21:56, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wouldn't it be more beneficial to update these numbers manually, from the stats site? Anyone could do it... Dysprosia 21:58, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  That page lists only people who are currently active and have made more than  6000 main article space edits. People would like a longer list than that, I expect. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 22:58, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: No. of edits