So I just noticed on my Edit count that I have 175 "Archived revisions". I'm guessing that these are edits made to pages that have been deleted (but that's just a guess). However, if that's the case, I'm also guessing that the number is the sum of revisions to pages deleted regardless of namespace, which means one cannot tell if an archived revision is from the (Main) namespace or any other namespace. If all of this is true, how does it affect the policies that rely on user edit counts? Also... the Edit count page says the results are cached, meaning they are probably not the most current values. This all seems new (i.e. changed) to me from how the page acted before. Did Wikia do something here? Does anybody else see this? Is anybody else concerned? - Esjs(Talk) 21:36, February 13, 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, Wikia made some changes. "Archived revisions" are indeed deleted edits; they do not and never have made any impact on policies that use edit count, as the old edit count pages ignored deleted edits altogether (so we've only ever counted "live" edits). As for caching, this is probably because updating the edit counts in real time for thousands upon thousands of users across thousands of wikis was using too many system resources. Running an update script only at certain intervals is much easier on the servers. For real-time data when a user has potentially just crossed the threshold for something, fifty mainspace edits can be easily checked by going to the user's contributions page and filtering by namespace. The productivity requirement is a little more difficult, but can be counted manually in just a few minutes even for a user that has thousands of edits if you know a few tricks; otherwise there likely isn't any harm in waiting a short period of time for the update script to run. —MJ— Jedi Council Chambers 04:41, February 14, 2014 (UTC)