User blog comment:Toughpigs/My Home -- new feature launches on Wednesday/@comment-10370-20090923230528

Yeah, the difference between the two edit counts is something that we only discovered today, once the user masthead was up and we could compare the two on live sites.

As far as I can tell, what's happening is that the edit count in the masthead doesn't count redirects, and Special:Editcount does. You're right; those should match. We'll fix it.