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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; while editcountitis may be fatal, we primarily strive to offer another alternative and viewpoint at one's contributions. We're not promoting the use of statistics to judge someone's appropriateness or suitability for any positions; quite the contrary. We're just getting started. Please feel free to join and help us.

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[edit] List of counters

(tools that don't give accurate edit counts for the English Wikipedia are struck out)
  • Toolserver-based edit counters (toolserver replication for en.wikipedia.org is down, and may be restored at some point in the future. Until then, edit counts that rely on the toolserver's database will be stuck at June 9, 2006)
  • Independent edit counters, which don't rely on the Toolserver database and aren't affected by replication lag
    • Flcelloguy's Tool (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 (v5.00) won't work.
      • The Java Sandbox, where we're 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, doesn't work with MSIE
    • Interiot's external perl edit counter (aka Tool1, wannabe_kate) (screenshot)
    • 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.
    • Essjay's PHP counter, although running on the toolserver, it relies on HTML scraping of Special:Contributions like other external counters (not working)
    • Lupin's javascript counter which uses query.php to download all of a user's contributions without screen-scraping (screenshot)
    • Ais523's javascript (only counts 5000 edits in each namespace)
    • Draicone's tool (currently only working for <5000 edits)
    • Mike's tool (Similar to Essjay's, but working. Same limitation as Draicone's with <5000 edits)
  • MediaWiki Extensions:

[edit] Some links

[edit] Technical information

[edit] Members

[edit] 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!
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