Edit counts!

[lian]

Inofficial post is unofficial and curious.

I only very occasionally add stuff to Fanlore, but I used to be a heavy editer back in the day. So it idly occured to me to check my edit count: I've never done that before, but apparently it's right there under "My preferences".

Turns out my edit count is 1,208. Hmmm... honestly, I have no idea whatsoever whether that's meagre? average? creditable? (I thought it was more, tbh, seeing as I do tons of silly little typo edits etc.)


Indulge me -- what's your edit count? And how does it compare to your expectations? Any anecdotes you want to share?

Comments

[bridgetmkennitt]

I have 60 edits!

My edits have been on very few pages, mostly the ones I made, though I sometimes fix spelling errors that I see on other pages.

[facetofcathy]

1,423

We should bear in mind that talk pages count as edits, so anyone who's been involved in a lot of conversations about how to do things on talk pages will have lots. And in the early days, before my time, there were a lot of those conversations.

I want to know Mrs. Potato Head's number though, so we can all be in awe.

[sqbr]

50! Which is about what I was expecting, I only go through editing phases very rarely.

30,283

[morgandawn]

But I edit pages in small batches and then save due to a propensity for my browsers to crash. So a single page is counted multiple times.

[kylara]

932. Not really sure what I was expecting or what to think about that. My first edit was almost exactly two years ago, so it works out to just over two edits a day on average, which is kind of neat.

[hl]

60! Which makes sense since I made like only two or three pages and corrected mostly the same amount -- if that. I would do more, but I never know how to start.

The Winner of the "Get A Life? I *Have* A Life! Now Let Me Get To It!" Award

[morgandawn]

goes to Mrs Potato Head at....115,878. But like me, she saves as she edits so that creates multiple counts for a single page.

[hermitsoul]

67 for me. Which makes sense, I'm usually there for research more than anything else.

[onceamy]

2,538

Which surprises me -- I thought I would have done more. Most of my edits are concentrated on single pages, though, so I guess I can't complain.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

42,286. Pretty much what I expected. *g*

[meg_r]

781. But the vast majority of my edits are veeeery minor, fixing typos and adding wikilink brackets etc.

19,514

[aethel]

19,514 and a lot of those are from marathon editing sessions changing templates or categories on massive numbers of pages. I don't really have a plan for adding actual *content*, though when I started editing back in 2008, I worked on Due South and vid pages, and there was that GeoCities phase in 2009. When I write content, it takes fewer edits, but a lot more time. Mostly I check RecentChanges or look through the gardener to-do list and then five hours later remember I was going to eat or go for a walk or do my laundry or something.