Forum:Global contributions for Wikia?

At our wiki — Admin Tools Wiki (ATW) — before approving Requests for rights, we like to review the requestor's edit count and contributions on the various wikis that they work on. For requestors who work primarily on Wikimedia Foundation projects, this is not difficult, given that it can be done with a single click. ( Example : Here is my global edit count on WMF projects, while here are my global contributions on WMF projects.) I find that I can get a requestor's global Wikia edit count by simply using  Special:EditCount/ username . ( Example : Here is my global Wikia edit count plus ATW edit count.) However, I cannot figure out how to get global Wikia contributions.  Special:Contributions/ username  only yields the user’s local contributions on the wiki on which the command is being issued. Any ideas? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  12:53, May 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * There isn't a way for users to view this information, Staff and VSTF have a tool to do that, but I'm not sure what staff's policy is on using it, the best way would be to and see - or revise your own policy (for example, asking them to give a link to a wiki where they have significant contributions)  Random Time  12:59, May 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's a server strain, so Wikia prefers to only use it when it's necessary. However, there's a feature (that's technically still in beta(?) even though it's default on some wikis) that shows your edit count on all wikis on your profile. If you go to a wiki such as Assassin's Creed Wiki, all user profiles have the feature, even if the user hasn't edited on the wiki. You can use that to jump to the top 5 wikis where they edit, and look up their contribs there.


 * You could probably also get it from the api with a bot, but I have a feeling that Wikia would frown on that.


 * Okay, Monchoman, I give up! :) I went over to Assassin's Creed Wiki, switched my skin to Oasis and saw the “tool” you mentioned atop each userpage. It was really neat! I could not, however, figure out what was generating it. Where do I find the tool? Does it require the installation of any special extensions? Is it a javascript that needs to be added to the MediaWiki namespace? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  13:59, May 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's PHP, so you can't directly control whether you have it. It's not a documented tool in any respect - Wikia just stuck it on the "new" userpage setup at one point, and new wikis have a chance of getting it when they're created. Wikia might be able to enable it for you if you send a message to Special:Contact, but they also might not.


 * Sorry, but we don't have a reliable or scalable way of getting this info right now. Even the staff tool is server intensive and not always up to date. I suggest that you ask the applicants which wikis they have been active on so that you can check their edits there. Angela 13:13, May 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks to everyone for the responses! I have sort of found a work around. It seems that, thanks to the universal nature of Wikia usernames/accounts, if you go over to that wiki, go to a particular user’s userpage, it will show you his/her top five, regardless of whether s/he has even created a userpage there. So, when necessary vis-à-vis RfRs, I can just scoot over there for a sec.""I do have some follow-up: Why does only that wiki have that tool? Is it intended to one day be rolled out universally? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  08:02, May 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * A number of wikis have this feature, not only the Assassin's Creed Wiki. I guess it's still in development that's why it's not as common. &mdash; Sovq 08:46, May 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * I recall staff saying that it was a feature in beta back in the first forum thread, even though it was default on some new wikis. It still is, although AFAIK it isn't out of beta. Then again, I'm not sure they'd tell us anyway, as they didn't mention that they were starting the test either.

You should also note that on that special profile a user can choose to hide some of the wikis that he/she has been active at, so it's not a truly reliable way to check whether a user has bee doing mischief elsewhere. ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 18:22, May 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah … you see that is what I was primarily wanting to use it for … “mischief”. Before we grant Administrator privileges at our wiki, we like to have a look at the applicant’s work on other wikis to see if there have been any difficulties with them elsewhere. When the candidate is primarliy a WMF contributor, that’s easy to do. It’s all the more easy if, within the WMF projects, they primarily edit at Wikipedia, because then one can look at block logs, other logs, WP:ANI, etc. But, if the applicant is primarily a Wikia contributor, it makes that task more difficult. Thanks for the caveat Gardimuer! — Spike Toronto  08:01, May 12, 2011 (UTC)