Forum:Edits, Edit Points and User Rankings

Hi, did a bit of searching and couldn't find any explanation of this, so I hope I'm not duplicating!

Basically, I was wondering if anyone could give a bit of clarification on edit counts, edit points, and how the latter are used to rank users on the Wikia category page.

First, edits: on my user profile page on generalarmory wiki (created by me, and basically the only wiki I've worked on), under my name it says '4424 edits since joining this wiki.'; to the right, under my top wikis, it says '6629 edits'. And under my badges to the bottom right, it currently says I have 3432 edits. Now, I presume the first two entries include some combination of photos added, pages added to categories, etc., but there is no way I can get the numbers to add up at all; and why are the three figures so vastly different?

Secondly, edit points and user rankings: my generalarmory wiki is categorised under lifestyle. On the homepage for that category, it has a list of top users for the week with a figure for 'edit points', ranging as I write from 773 down to 61.

What is the basis for calculating edit points? The can't simply be edits, as looking at the user with 61 edit points, he's only made 4 contributions in the past week. Do different types of contribution - blog posts, forum posts, etc - earn different numbers of edit points? How much do I earn for editing an ecxisting page on a wiki, or creating a new one, or up,oading an image?

Cheers

James

James doyle 08:15, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure edit points is just another name for how many edits a user has in a particular category, so 1 edit point = i edit. As for the edit counts, the one near "Joined Since" is the edits that are visible on the wiki, the one near top wikis is the total edits on the wiki, which includes deleted ones, but I don't know what the 3rd one is. My edit count is a bit off on total edits, as is everyone's, but that can't be helped. Hope I helped! ~> ฬ ђ  (tคlк ★  ς๏ภtгเ๒ร) 09:18, July 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that, woganhemlock. I'm not sure about the deleted edits being the difference, as I've not made anywhere near 2000 deletions; but that added to 'pages' added to categories' may well make up fo the discrepancy.


 * The edit points is much as I thought then - but I wonder why I'm not showing up on top users for Lifestyle wikis; I've just done a count and I've got 403 contributions over the past seven days, more than all but one of the top 5.


 * James doyle 16:11, July 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Deleted contributions aren't pages you've deleted, they're edits on pages that have since been deleted. So, for example, if you edit a page 20 times and then delete it, those 20 edits don't appear on your userpage, but they do on your top wikis module. There's also an editcount in your preferences which is global, and an editcount at Special:Editcount, which shows local and global. Special:ListUsers also has an editcount that follows it's own rules. It all depends upon what the count considers an edit, so it's difficult to say for certain how many edits you actually have.