Things2do wrote: ↑April 15th, 2020, 5:35 pm
BennyTheJett wrote: ↑April 15th, 2020, 5:25 pm
Things2do wrote: ↑April 15th, 2020, 5:20 pm
Hey, I'm up to number 61 on that list.
Wait.... how am I at 32? I don't even do that much lol.
Those were my exact thoughts when I first saw that 80 next to my name on the first list.
Unlike the forums, an edit is an edit on the wiki. There are no such thing as "useful" edits or "nonuseful" edits. Thus, if you edit your own page (to update your placement table, for example), that gets counted as an edit, just as if you had made 1 edit to an event page.
That's why I updated the code to include a
"% of Contributions to Own User Page" column. This shows how many of your edits were to your own page (not including subpages, such as "User:Pepperonipi/Sandbox", which are often used for useful wiki stuff). The higher this percentage is (relative to everyone else's percent), then a lot more of your edits would not have been typically counted as "useful". Someone with a very low percentage is likely just editing normal articles, without touching their user page at all, while someone with a very high percentage is generally only editing their user page.
Also, if you look at the last column (the top 5 pages you have made the most edit to), you'll probably see that your user page is included in there if you have a higher percentage.
You can see in the pic above, Benny's percentage is pretty high; 41% of all his edits were just to his own page, which is also his top most-edited article, as shown in the next column. Astroknight has a 0%, because they don't have a user page... and Bernard's is 10%, which is a pretty standard percentage.
There's nothing wrong with a lot of edits being done to your own userpage, it's just that's why you wonder why your so high on the leaderboard even when you haven't edited many main namespace articles.
