I think I know. Editcount register the edits made by a user. And contributions are the lines of history with his name.
So, when I rename a page I make 1 edit, but create 2 lines if history (the one on redirect will be deleted if someone cancel my renaming. A case when you can have history line anterior to your registration is on history import. And, as you didn't made the edit it is not in edit count. That can explain higher or lower editcount. Regards Hercule Le 14 déc. 2010 à 02:28, Raymond Yee <raymond....@gmail.com> a écrit : > Thanks, Roan, for responding to my post. It did occur to me I had hit upon > an account renaming but I think something else is happening here. Let me > give an example of an account renaming that seems to be the most common: > > User:Penrithpanthers was renamed to User:SATidball -- which you can see at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=renameuser&user=&page=User:Penrithpanthers&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= > > 04:53, 3 December 2010 Nihonjoe (talk | contribs) renamed > User:Penrithpanthers to "SATidball" (94 edits. Reason: WP:CHU) > > If we look up Penrithpanthers and SATidball in the API, using > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Penrithpanthers|SATidball&usprop=groups|editcount|gender|registration > we get: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <api> > <query> > <users> > <user name="Penrithpanthers" missing="" /> > <user name="SATidball" editcount="96" > registration="2010-09-25T00:30:16Z" gender="male" /> > </users> > </query> > </api> > > The old account name is now "missing" and the new account SATidball picks up > the registration date and all the contributions that used to belong to > Penrithpanthers. > > What happened with User:Katr67 seems to be a bit different. We can find a > renaming event for User:Katr67 > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=renameuser&user=&page=User:Katr67&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= > shows > > 03:31, 18 September 2010 Nihonjoe (talk | contribs) renamed User:Katr67 to > "Valfontis" (53,420 edits. Reason: WP:CHU) > > However, the User:Katr67 account is not deleted (as was > User:Penrithpanthers). Instead, going to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Katr67 redirects to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valfontis And we look up both users at > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Katr67|Valfontis&usprop=groups|editcount|gender|registration > we get > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <api> > <query> > <users> > <user name="Katr67" editcount="4" registration="2010-12-10T08:09:19Z" > gender="unknown" /> > <user name="Valfontis" editcount="53627" > registration="2006-01-06T10:23:49Z" gender="unknown"> > <groups> > <g>autoreviewer</g> > <g>reviewer</g> > <g>rollbacker</g> > </groups> > </user> > </users> > </query> > </api> > > So what's happening with Katr67/Valfontis ? > > Thanks, > -Raymond (User:RaymondYee) > > > On 12/13/10 6:24 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> >> 2010/12/14 Raymond Yee <raymond....@gmail.com>: >>> In computing statistics for many recent accounts, I have these assumptions >>> to be true for the vast majority of accounts. I'm puzzled, however, for >>> accounts in which one or both assumptions are wrong. An example is >>> User:Katr67 >>> >> You probably hit an account rename here. Edits are reattributed for >> those, but I guess the editcount isn't updated for that, and of course >> the registration timestamp will be different too. >> >> Roan Kattouw (Catrope) >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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