Wikipedia:Edits Per Day

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This page in a nutshell: If your EPD is lower than 50, then you are a failure at Wikipedia. Despair!

This guy let his EPD go under 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 falls below 50 per day, consider taking a wikibreak.

1 Importance
2 Illness
3 Community goals
4 Twinkle
5 Huggle
6 Rollback
7 All is well with the server
8 References
9 See also

[edit] Importance

This section in a nutshell: Your EPD is more valuable than you.

Admins, pay attention. Your EPD should remain relatively high - over 500. This rule also applies to wanna-be admins. A EPD of at least 5,000 is recommended before putting in an RfA. New editors take note: If you want the community's trust and respect don't make good constructive edits. Instead, increase your total edit count and your EPD with useless edits and one day you may be an admin, and possibly even a bureaucrat.

EPD may one day rank alongside total edit counts as a key determiner of an editor's dedication to Wikipedia. It should also be a key factor in supporting/rejecting an RfA candidate.

[edit] Illness

The editcountitis virus, just as real as the AIDS virus

This section in a nutshell: Don't believe them

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 power. Among other brain washing techniques, they'll try to convince that you are a victim of a serious illness know as editcountitis. Ignore their ill advice and keep hitting that "Save page" button as often as you can. Don't forget the rollback and undo buttons!

[edit] Community goals

This section in a nutshell: Encyclopedias are boring and wikipedia is not, further irrefutable and logically-sound proof that wikipedia isn't one

Does this look like wikipedia to you?

The goal of Wikipedia is building an article-editing community where the guy with the greatest amountof edits get all the girls. Any rumours you have heard about creating the best encyclopedia ever are a lie 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 was Jimbo Wales primary occupation prior to Wikipedia.

[edit] Twinkle

This section in a nutshell: Twinkle rules.

Concerned cat doesn't want you to steamroll other people's edits with Twinkle. Don't listen to him. He's evil.

Remember, Twinkle is not a tool to help editors fight vandalism. It's actually a tool designed to effortessly increase your EPD by making inadequate reversals on newcomers that try to help to improve wikipedia. Never 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 is not going to cause him unnecessary stress, causing him to leave Wikipedia. Helping new editors to become valuable contributors to Wikipedia is an unnecessary waste of time on your road to bureaucracy and to sitting to the right of Jimbo.

You can find more EPD-increasing tools on Category:Wikipedia_EPD-increasing_tools.

[edit] Huggle

This section in a nutshell: Huggle is the ultimate EPD increasing tool!!!

If your EPD is falling and you can't find anything to revert then get Wikipedia:Huggle! Now you have several hundred recent edits you can look through and revert at bot-like speeds! Don't forget for the new(Whom must be bitten to death!!! users:warn,warn,warn,warn,report,block! You can even CSD newly created pages that haven't had a chance to grow! Remember EPD above all else! That seat to the right of of Jimbo ain't coming by itself.It's attracted by very high EPD!!! At the minimum crash 20 servers and if you crash all of Wikipedia's servers.....You're the new Jimbo Wales!!!

[edit] Rollback

This section in a nutshell: Rollback is better than Twinkle or Huggle but not both combined!

Only admins can use this tool. Why? Because it's a 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 "trusted" users. Now get out there and get unnecessarily reverting!!!

[edit] All is well with the server

This section in a nutshell: Pigeons have a higher EPD than you.

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 responsability) 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. [1]

”

So, if 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 inflating your EPD, I can already hear it dropping below unacceptable level while you are reading this instead of editing more.

Also, Wikipedia runs partially on hardware donated by Google, and everybody knows that google has infinite amounts of hardware and bandwith and runs on renewable resources. ^[1]