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.
• 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
  • WikiDashboard, a tool that can analyze a user's edit patterns as well as the editors of a page. (Now with live data for every page)
  • Kate's Tool, in python. The original and only edit counter for years.
  • Escaladix' tool, counts and shows all articles and redirects started by a given user. (Warning: Intermittent)
  • X!(Soxred93)'s tool, list of pages, created by given user
  • Luxo's tool, counts global edits (edits in all Wikis for a given user name).
  • Yet another edit counter from vvv.
  • X!(Soxred93)'s new edit counter Works on editors with over 750000 edits. Also replicates the months graph of Interiot's tool.

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

• http://en.wikichecker.com/ : Wikipedia-independent site that shows user editcount, editing time trends, namespace trends, and other things with graphs/charts. Uses API. Also has tools for the entire Wikipedia and specific articles. This counter doesn't currently work. Website shows code 403 Forbidden. There is nothing wrong with it; you just have to keep trying/keep refreshing!
• Interiot's edit counter, external website, nothing to install, written in perl (aka Tool1, wannabe_kate) (screenshot) – Times out with large edit counts. – no longer working
• Stable edit counter – many projects, updated to use native API over query.php
• Flcelloguy's Tool v5.20 (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 (v5.20) 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 – This counter doesn't currently work. (says so right on the page)
• 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, count up to 5000 log actions, and show a display of what times and what weekdays a user tends to edit at/on.)
• Milestone finds the nth edit of an editor – No longer working (acount expired) Checked 2010-07-22
• WikiFORJA Counter (checks server count on a variety of Wikimedia wikis) – no longer working (checked 2009-09-15)
• Cfp's User Score Bot Google appspot based "counter" that assigns a score to edits, 365 for an edit today, 364 for one yesterday, etc. etc.

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
• Toolserver stable edit counter
• **Interiot's tool (aka Tool3), a modification of Kate's, in perl (Some features not working) gives a highly inaccurate number

See also

• Wikipedia:Edit count
• Wikipedia:Editcountitis

External links

• Topaz's Wikiscripts, triggers any URL-based counter by right-clicking on a username

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

• Titoxd^{(?!? – 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@thwiz2020 01:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
• Lightdarkness 03:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• PeruvianLlama^(spit) 00:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Shanel 00:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
• Computerjoe's talk 11:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• eisenhower ^UTCEQ
• ais523
• Voice-of-All 01:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• AchedDamiman
• --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 23:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
• Jonathan
• DAFMM, April 7th 2009.

Userbox

For members of this WikiProject to put on their user pages.

COUNT	This user is a member of WikiProject edit counters

Code: Wikipedia:COUNT/Userbox

Announcement board

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• Version 3.30 of Flcelloguy's Tool is released: this version can process edit summaries.
• Version 3.40 of Flcelloguy's Tool is released: all edit summary bugs are quashed. Also, Version 4.00 is under development - copy the code at the Java Sandbox to test out the new version.
• Version 4.00 of Flcelloguy's Tool is currently in the process of being rushed out the door due to the debilitation of the toolserver counters: please help out!
• Version 5.00 of Flcelloguy's Tool is out. Please upgrade immediately, as older versions will no longer work.
• Version 5.10 of Flcelloguy's Tool is out. Please upgrade immediately, as older versions will no longer work.

See also

• Toolserver/Projects