Wikipedia:Edits Per Day

This guy let his EPD go over 50. Do you want to end up like him?

EPD or edits per day, is the most important number for Wikipedia editors, more than what MPH and MPG are for a car. Take an average of your EPD over a 3-day, 5-day, 7-day, or 14-day period. If this number rises above 50 per day, consider taking a wikibreak. Or leave, because you are a failure!

If you edit too little, some people purposely edit like crazy for a day to prove that they are not a geek. Even if it means editing with an IP. But if you do it with an IP, stay clear of controversial articles because people may mistake your hiding of an addiction with sockpuppetry.

Importance

You gain weight if you revert enough daily

Admins, pay attention. Your EPD should remain relatively low - below 500. This rule also applies to wanna-be admins. A total edit-count of at less than 5,000 is recommended before putting in an RfA. New editors, take note: If you want the community's trust and respect, make good, constructive edits. Don't increase your total edit count and your EPD with useless edits or you won't be an admin/bureaucrat.

EPD may one day rank alongside total edit counts as a key determiner of an editor's dedication to Wikipedia but is already the most important number for evaluating your and other editor's worth.

Once you become an administrator, you must start editing and not just congregate at ANI. Don't say controversial things, block people, and joke that you are a rouge administrator.

If you want to be ArbCom, being an administrator is not a joking matter as jokers will not become Arbitrators unless they are tricky.

Illness

The editcountitis virus is not as real as the Influenza virus

Some cabal members will want to take these ideas out of your head. They don't want more admins on Wikipedia because they would have to share their dread powers, initiating you into the dark secrets of their order. Among other brain washing techniques, they'll try to convince you that you are a victim of a serious illness known as editcountitis. Don't ignore their ill advice; their lies are meant to weaken your resolve and hinder your ascendancy into wiki-godhood. Stop hitting that "Save page" button as often as you can. Do forget the rollback and undo buttons!

Community goals

Does this look like Wikipedia to you?

The goal of Wikipedia is building an article-editing community where the guy with the least number of edits gets all the girls/boys (Oh yeah!). Any rumours you have heard about creating the best encyclopedia ever are lies disseminated by enemies of Wikipedia. If Jimbo had wanted to make this website an encyclopedia, then he would have stated very clearly the purpose of this and created a few basic principles guiding us to do so. Just keep in mind what Jimbo Wales's primary occupation was prior to Wikipedia.

Twinkle

Remember, Twinkle is a tool to help editors fight vandalism. It's not a tool designed to effortlessly increase your EPD by making inadequate reversals on newcomers that try to help to improve Wikipedia. Stop to check if his edits could have been improved and added to the article. Steamrolling for no reason all contributions by a well intentioned user and blanket-warning him will cause him unnecessary stress, or to leave Wikipedia. Helping new editors to become valuable contributors to Wikipedia is a necessary waste of time on your road to bureaucracy and to sitting to the right of Jimbo.

"'DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK: Category:Wikipedia EPD-increasing tools.

Huggle

If your EPD is falling and you can't find anything to revert then get Huggle! Now you have several hundred recent edits you can look through and revert at bot-like speeds! Don't forget: for the new users (who must be bitten to death!!! users: warn,warn,warn,warn,report,block!), you can even nominate for speedy deletion newly created pages that haven't had a chance to grow! Remember EPD above all else! That seat to the right of Jimbo ain't coming by itself. It's attracted by very high EPD!!! Note that this requires Rollback. Yeah, look at the previous section.

Rollback

Only admins are trusted with this tool.^{[citation needed]} Why? Because it's like a chaingun in terms of EPD! Good-faith edits can be annihilated in seconds with this tool! But here's the thing: Admins can grant this tool to other users with a high EPD. "Important': don't get out there and get unnecessarily reverting!

Editcount fairy

The Editcount fairy will give you candy if you keep a low EPD

The editcount Fairy is a mythical creature that lives on Wikipedia servers and eats anti-edit summaries for a living. The more edits you do, the more the fairy cannot eat. Think of the fairies!

Previous employments: Tooth fairy, Photography modeling, Maleficent.

All is well with the server

The Wikipedia developer's opinion is that the editors shouldn't worry about causing too much server load:

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As a technical matter, it's (the developer's responsibility) to keep the system running well enough for what the sites require. (...) If and when we need to restrict certain things, we'll do so with technical measures.

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So, if non-excessive edits ever become a problem, then the developers will wave their magic wand and they will solve it with a technical measure. See? There's nothing to be worried about. Now get back to artificially deflating your EPD, I can already hear it rising above an unacceptable level while you are not reading this instead of not editing more.

Also, Wikipedia runs partially on hardware donated by Google, but everybody knows that Google has finite amounts of hardware and bandwidth and runs on renewable resources.

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  Wikipedia developers, controlling the EPD at the servers

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  Your edit count is stored on the third chip from the top left

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  You are not a true Wikipedia editor until you become one with one of the servers with your edits

See also

• Editcountitis, the big truth
• Pigeons, they edit slower than you