Topic on Talk:XTools

Hi,

Maybe you could think of a Global Edit Counter page with only global info, like all accounts (from Special:CentralAuth or from sulinfo, the second is better because there is creation date and not attach date), and statistics (yearly, and monthly if someone has EditCounterGlobalOptIn.js, time card maybe also) summed from all wikis with colors assigned to wikis (instead of namespaces). Latest global edits would naturally belong there, and on existing Edit Counter pages there could be only latest local edits.

Regards,

Mik.

My gut instinct is that this would go too slow for an on-demand tool. But, if we restrict to just certain stats like the year/month counts (and even timecard), it might just be feasible. Those queries actually go fairly fast.

The log counts, and other things that you see in "General statistics" are not fast, however. We'd definitely have to omit some data, otherwise the tool would go painfully slow -- 30 minutes, an hour, perhaps longer -- depending on how prolific the user is.

I'm working on other things for XTools right now, and we have a backlog of bugs to kink out, but I'd love to look into your proposal at some point. I've created phab:T190819. You can follow it for updates.

Thanks!

To start, there could be only information that can be retrieved from centralauth, sulinfo, and latest global edits, which are quite fast (finishes in a few seconds). There is already a tool that draws nice pie charts, and a sorted list of accounts with creation dates: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/stalktoy/mik, however it is very slow (finishes in a few minutes).