Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters

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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

Wikipedia compatible edit counter and page counters

• Your own edit count is displayed on Special:Preferences under View your global account info. This count includes deleted edits.
• The View global account info as well as Edit count may be accessed through the Contributions tab (features then found at the bottom of the page).
• The edit count of any user can be viewed at the top of the Special:Contributions page. This is the same count that is displayed in Special:Preferences.
• Global user contributions beta displays edit counts for all Wikimedia projects your account has edited on.
• Special:CentralAuth displays edit counts for every wiki your account has edited on.
• XTools Edit Counter, edit count for a user. Full-featured editor analysis tool.
• XTools Top Edits, Edit count for a user. View the edits for an editor on a particular page.
• XTools Pages Created, view the pages created by a user, including deleted pages.
• XTools Auto Edits, view automated or non-automated edits by a given user.
• Pages created another tool lists pages created by a user, maintained by Sigma on Labs.

Other counters

• User Analysis Tool, maintained and written by Cyberpower678. Redirects to the XTools edit counter.
• Deep Wiki Inspector by Ricordisamoa, shows a wide range of information, from edit count to times edited and map. (This tool does not report accurate edit counts.)
• Wikiscan

Non-Wikipedia compatible edit counter and page counters

• Benjamin Peterson's Special:EditCount extension which has been archived. View the edit count of a user per namespace
• Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's Special:Editcount extension (Not on Wikipedia, on Wikia).

Independent edit counters

These counters are 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. It still works most of the time, but one needs to be patient (and hit refresh multiple times). You may get an error message, but refresh a few times and it will likely work.
• Kate's tool, superseded by Interiot's tool [1]
  • 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 (account 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.
• Kanegasi's JS edit counter. Originally made by Najzere of strategywiki.org, this version is significantly revised and built upon. It uses the wiki API to query and count contributions and creates a table in your userspace. It is used by clicking a link under the "User contributions" link in the sidebar. It should be usable on any MediaWiki install version 1.18 or greater. You can see a full example on my Minecraft Wiki edit count.
• 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)
• Deep User Inspector by Ricordisamoa, has lots of other information on editors as well. (This tool does not report accurate edit counts.)
• http://content.paragram.org/wpuser/ is the successor of WikiChecker, though it does not allow the user to analyze a specific number of most recent edits

Action counters

• Counts of administrative actions

Technical information

• /Internationalization, describing how to adapt edit counters to Wikipedia sites from other languages, especially for HTML-scraping tools
• Api.php (example) provides an Application Programming Interface to retrieve contribution histories that is 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.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{Wikipedia:COUNT/Userbox}}	COUNTThis user is a member of WikiProject edit counters.	linked pages

Announcement board

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See also

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