Guide to interpretation

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  • First of all, beware of editcountitis! Number of edits is not the same as quality of edits. However, the distribution of edits can give some clues as to where the editor's interests lie.
  • Edits to a space and its associated talkspace are deliberately mashed together. This follows my theory that discussion is just as important as action, especially in the mainspace and also in many parts of the project (WP) space. Userspace is quite different, most uspace edits will be to the editor's own page(s) but user talk edits may be informative.
  • "Career" edits are reported, as are "recent" edits (last 300 days here). This gives a look at how the editor has participated since they joined the project and what they have been doing recently. Key points to look for here are shifts in focus (from article writing to projectspace contributions say) and slowdowns (or speedups) in participation in general.
  • "Page family" reports can give an idea of where the editor concentrates their attention. Many other edit-listing tools will highlight "most-edited" pages, but this is the only one I know of which can group together participation in various project areas. Two examples which spring to mind are WP:AFD and WP:MILHIST, but if you examine each editor you will find a wide variety of interests.
  • New to this version of the tool is a line at the bottom of each listing showing the percentage of edits and pages represented in the data. This gives an idea of how concentrated the editor has been in their work.
  • And finally, remember that on-wiki edits do not represent the sum total of any editor's contributions to the project. Much work is conducted off-line, such as formal mediation, admin actions and ArbCom work for the arbs. Don't take this as the full picture! Franamax (talk) 03:31, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Implementation notes

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This page contains output from version 0.3c of the uContribs program. Some notes for interpretation:

  • Beware of editcountitis! Counting number of edits gives no insight into whether the editor has actually made a contribution. Counting edits can however give some insight into where the editors interests lie in general terms.
  • The mainspace summaries here show the current status of the article (FA/GA/etc.) - but just because the editor has made many edits to the article does not mean that they were responsible for getting the article to its current rating.
  • Data is listed two different ways here:
    • The Career summary counts every contribution this editor has made (deleted edits excluded) and sorts by the combined total of article and talk edits. The career listing includes the "recent" edit count.
    • The "Recent" summary sorts the listing by recent edits, but still shows the career total edits. Recent is usually defined as 300 days-worth of edits.
    • Recent can be used to look at the editor's current interests. Career gives a look at everything they've been interested in since they started editing.
  • Wikipedia- and user-space summaries have an additional section for "page families". A page family is defined as the summation of any page and all of its sub-pages (if there is a "/" in the pagename, the family name is the text before the first "/"). The page family summary shows (in brackets) the total number of pages within the family. Not all of these will be shown in the detail display if a detail cutoff is reached.
  • History scans for highly active editors can cause internal table overflows, which are noted either in the "small print" or within detail tables. In the case of an overflow, the most recent pages will be listed, and all edits to that page will be listed. The current limits are 8,000 pages, 800 page families, and 2,000 pages within a family. Thanks to various editors for consistently breaking the previously set limits!
  • Start date and total edits come from soxred93 and do not include deleted edits.
  • This program is in intermittent development - if you spot any discrepancies in the data or presentation, please bring them to my attention! (Of course my software is always perfect the first time I write it, so I'm sure it's someone else's fault - but I'd still like to know ;) Franamax (talk) 07:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom 2009 Candidates

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ArbCom candidate listings use a uniform 300-day cutoff as the "recent" parameter and start counting back from 01 November 2009. This is to prevent the "recent" summaries from being affected by the current election and any possible aftermath from the previous one.

First GT Eds Candidate Mainspc
Career
Mainspc
Recent
WPspc
Career
WPspc
Recent
Uspc
Career
Uspc
Recent
2006-02 19451 AGK 2765 269 7933 1013 7306 925
2006-01 27539 Cla68 20264 5599 3892 888 2755 762
2003-05 11195 Coren 1656 86 4311 964 4899 504
2002-11 23541 Fred Bauder 6293 1012 12640 61 4107 932
2007-04 12237 Fritzpoll 3746 675 2821 1505 4630 964
2006-12 24865 Hersfold 4413 563 6984 1320 11807 3590
2005-03 26007 Jehochman 5936 889 10913 2077 8306 1434
2005-06 59957 Kirill Lokshin 16060 384 25472 3777 6488 388
2004-05 6364 Kmweber 3464 5 1227 0 1227 3
2006-03 11780 KnightLago 5807 642 1978 513 3620 611
2004-11 48509 Mailer diablo 14904 729 26557 629 6006 534
2007-07 52610 MBK004 35137 11220 3790 1906 11545 3754
2006-02 14312 RMHED 10196 994 2321 183 1307 140
2006-03 18930 Ruslik0 12007 4608 3445 1800 1536 815
2005-08 27443 Secret * 14575 223 8763 265 3410 69
2006-11 5512 Seddon 1902 182 1488 415 1943 350
2005-06 27179 Shell Kinney 13649 794 5266 457 7340 561
2006-02 7385 SirFozzie 1796 144 2410 241 3081 217
2007-02 17607 Steve Smith 10093 2198 3304 811 3153 739
2009-03 1326 Unomi 499 499 410 410 224 224
2005-09 28937 Wehwalt 20013 7063 5335 3171 2339 1627
2003-02 36517 William M. Connolley 20411 2298 5380 1507 10240 3019
2007-09 6543 Xavexgoem 2694 788 2170 733 1379 282
  • User:Secret includes figures for User:Jaranda

Sitting Arbitrators

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Arbitrator listings use a uniform 300-day cutoff as the "recent" parameter and start counting back from 01 November 2009.

Tranches are shown as best I can read this, corrections are welcome. Tranche Gamma is currently being replaced. Tranche Beta was elected last year (other tranches were topped up last year too). Tranche Alpha will be replaced next year. The latest state of play can be seen at the AC History page. Tranches may be eliminated as of this election.

First GT Eds Candidate Mainspc
Career
Mainspc
Recent
WPspc
Career
WPspc
Recent
Uspc
Career
Uspc
Recent
Tranche
2005-01 48986 Carcharoth 16817 747 19435 2851 9714 654 Alpha
2004-02 13615 Cool Hand Luke * 7212 526 3728 994 1905 431 Beta
2003-05 11195 Coren 1660 88 4311 964 4898 504 Gamma
2005-04 41092 FayssalF * 26479 1706 5770 1063 7019 465 Alpha
2005-10 13230 FloNight 3625 289 5812 1425 3572 302 Gamma
2004-09 40580 John Vandenberg 19591 4496 12997 1608 6698 1770 Beta**
2006-02 23516 Newyorkbrad 3169 232 12605 1806 7280 495 Alpha
2005-12 12833 Risker 5056 373 3424 1210 4161 649 Beta
2005-11 75009 Rlevse 31891 5941 15527 2339 21004 3902 Beta
2005-09 23669 Roger Davies 8682 498 8033 2640 6186 1089 Beta
2004-08 11966 Stephen Bain 5868 330 3589 256 2018 94 Gamma
2005-10 13277 Vassyana 4766 482 4634 1134 3658 453 Alpha
2006-03 78286 Wizardman 42173 18773 12769 3599 4494 583 Alpha

* Currently marked as inactive (18Nov2009).
** Self-limited to a 2-year term.

Other Listings

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These listings will have various different parameters. My own listing (User:Franamax) for example, uses a 120-day recent cutoff due to my pitiful overall history. The day-cutoff is shown in the "Rec Days" column.

Generally, none of these listings will have a "best-before" date, they start counting back from the second they are run.

If you'd like to see your own stellar record dissected for all to see, drop a note on the talk page.

First GT Edits Editor Mainspc
Career
Mainspc
Recent
Uspc
Career
Uspc
Recent
WPspc
Career
WPspc
Recent
Rec
Days
Run
Date
2006-05 60560 Casliber 39741 7785 7908 1992 10292 3271 300 24Nov09
2007-08 11695 Franamax 5318 1876 2671 769 3365 1059 300 24Nov09
2008-01 14041 MichaelQSchmidt 3715 2629 4288 2722 5539 3368 300 20Nov09
2008-01 -- MichaelQSchmidt -- -- -- -- -- -- 200 10Mar10

See also

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