[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia RC is broken

Sun Aug 29 01:16:20 UTC 2004

Proposal:

Let's list the number of total user contributions next to all the user 
names in the [[Special:Recentchanges]] list.

Rationale:

This will make it easier to focus on new users who may not yet be 
familiar with what's acceptable and what not.

While it is true that there is no straightforward relation between a 
bigger number of contributions and contribution quality, it can by and 
large however be assumed that if a user regularly submits substandard 
and/or mischievous contributions then the community probably knows 
about that user.

So despite the shortcomings, seeing a user's number of total previous 
contributions in the Recent changes list would be a step forward.

see: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245

-- Jens [[User:Ropers|Ropers]]
     www.ropersonline.com