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[edit] looking for a way to count all edits to all pages (not just specific to a single user)

I need to provide site level activity counts and report on that, within a MW site namespace, as well as across all articles in all namespaces in a MW site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.97.110.142 (talk) 16:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help plz

Friends it would grt if there is anyun amongst u who wud help me. My wannabe kate counter is not woring. I'm getting the msg 'Page Cannot be Displayed' whenever i try to use it. Thanks --

Rustam

10:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of pages created?

Is there any way to get a list of all pages I've created? Special:Newpages allows to search by username, but says that pages older than one month are not shown."

Thanks --Chriswaterguy talk 03:32, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I am curious about this too. The article says: "Escaladix' tool, counts and shows all articles and redirects started by a given user" But the link to the tool doesn't work. Any help appreciated. Voorlandt (talk) 23:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
This is a very urgent need... I looked all around for the exact same thing today... Zilch, nothing. The best way, apart from creating an external counter, would be to add another category to the Special:Contributions page, a "Page Creation Log". That shouldn't be so hard to do. Check the edit on the page history, see if theres any edit before it. If not, its a page creation. Otherwise, see the page size before the edit. If its 0 bytes or not defined, its again a page or redirect create. Sniperz11talk|edits 09:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Escaladix's tool seems to not work properly. Simply south (talk) 01:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
It works again now!Voorlandt (talk) 19:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Sort of. I've tried and yes it goes through to the tool but no matter what username you put in, it says the user doesn't exist or hasn't created anything. Simply south (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
You are right, just tried it and it is broken again! Last week it worked perfectly, and it displayed all the articles I created (luckily I copied them to my user page), today it doesn't work at all. So it seems very erratic!Voorlandt (talk) 09:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Works again... Voorlandt (talk) 11:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Can anyone tell me why Kate's tool edit count is just over 100 less than my edit count in "my preferences"? Which is more accurate? Ctjf83 talk 09:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Your edit count in your preferences includes contributions that have been deleted, like from pages that have been deleted or from specific edits you made that had information that needed to be removed from the history for legal reasons. Kate's tool only includes edits still on Wikipedia. --rm 'w avu 11:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response...especially the one on my talk page! Ctjf83 talk 17:56, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit count of a page?

Is there a way to find out how many edits I have made to a particular Wikipedia article? —BrOnXbOmBr21 • talk • contribs • 11:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Check out http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate. Scroll down... it doesn't give u the edits for all pages, but only the top 10 or so, which you've made most edits to. Sniperz11talk|edits 09:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much; that’s exactly what I was looking for! —BrOnXbOmBr21 • talk • contribs • 11:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interiot Tool 3 now broken?

The link [1] seems to be broken.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, and it has been for a couple of days... does anyone know when it will be back on? Sarazyn • 丁人LK • DE 14:07, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
It's working again, but not for all projects! Sarazyn • 丁人LK • DE 13:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics for Vandalism

In order to analyse the impact of vandalism are the following statistics available for a particular article:

  • the number of editors who have this article in their watchlist
  • article read rate (something like, # times article is read per day)

BradMajors (talk) 03:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the first, NO. Making that public would be inviting vandals to attack pages that aren't being watched. (Admins do have the ability to run a special report showing pages that aren't watched by anyone at all.)
Regarding the second, that's available at here; information goes back to December 2007. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interiot's

Could someone put interiot's tool near the top or bold it, as it took me a while to find a link from all of them that worked, and was friendly to look at/intuitive/easy to understand.

Thanks very much! Drum guy (talk) 19:11, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

Would it be possible to get a userbox that counts edits? Daedalus (talk) 05:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

It's possible to add JavaScript to your own account to get a userbox that counts your edits to your own view (it's at WP:US/S somewhere if I remember correctly), but not to create a userbox that counts edits whenever anyone views it. --ais523 17:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you clarify why it is not possible for a counter to be created for the number of times "anyone views it". Because that is what I am after. BradMajors (talk) 07:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
If you select "my preferences", you can see "Number of edits:". -- Wavelength (talk) 10:48, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I know, but I was wondering if a userbox existed, one did, and I now have it on my userpage. Daedalus (talk) 11:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages

Should that be included inside? 60.48.95.17 (talk) 09:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question 2

Sorry, which of these tools provides a list of which articles an editor has edited in each namespace? there used to be a counter here which did that, but I'm not sure which. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, ti's this one" http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate
This doesn't seem to be working. For the last few days, I can't get any results from it. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:44, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Idea

Hi, I was wondering if it would be feasible to create an edit counter that separates out edits made by AutoWikiBrowser (or other semi-automated tools, such as Twinkle and VandalProof). For example, when looking at my own edit count [2], periods where I have done AWB runs (November 2007, March and April 2008) stick out like a sore thumb. I can't be the only AWB user to be affected by this, so in circumstances like RfA it might be desirable to be able to see how many "manual" edits someone has made, as opposed to (semi-) automated ones.

(For the record, my own programming skills are definitely not up to a task like this!) --RFBailey (talk) 01:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

PS. If such a counter already exists, I apologise for my ignorance..... --RFBailey (talk) 01:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Better ways to browse edits

Counting edits is a simple concept. I think this Wikiproject needs to broaden its focus: we need better ways to examine people's past edits. Most importantly, we need to be able to list people's edits on each page by size. Since Wikipedia already records the amount of kilobytes changed, this should be doable, but people don't seem to be thinking about it much. I'm no programmer, any comments on the feasibility? To begin, we need the simpler task of listing only a certain contributors' edits to a certain page. ImperfectlyInformed | {talk - contribs} 23:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not that simple. If a vandal removes 10,000 bytes and I put it back via a revert, should I be credited with adding 10,000 bytes to the article?
There already is a tool for showing which editors are the most prolific, whenever viewing an article: WikiDashboard. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Counting reversions

I think a friend showed me a tool that counts number of times an editor has been reverted. I have lost it now. Does it exist? Can anyone help me? Thanks.--Filll (talk | wpc) 17:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)