User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: January 7, 2014/@comment-1158325-20140108204232

The deleted contributions change is an interesting one. However, it's useful also to have a count of only existing contributions because often deleted ones can be spam or otherwise unwanted, so they should not be included when indicating how much a user has contributed to the wiki. A while ago I wrote a script which adds a count like this. (Never got around to making it line up perfectly, though.) I think adding something akin to this in the software would be useful and informative. Maybe make it a bit less prominent since the count will already be included - hovertext at the least.