Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4146635-20130530223459/@comment-188432-20130531200424

The problem here is what you mean by "top editors". Is that the people who have the most edits overall, irrespective of namespace? If so, Special:Top/community, although it doesn't give you weekly stats, measures that stat. If you want to see the people who have edited the most in the so-called "content namespaces" (typically namespace 0, and a few others), then you can get a kind of weekly summary at Special:WikiStats/breakdown. Of course, this stat doesn't test whether the person actually edited this week. It's just, as of this week, who's got the all-time most edits (in the content namespaces).

The distinction between these two things is critical, of course. There are whole weeks where I have almost no edits in main, but tons on the Project and MediaWiki namespaces. Does that mean I'm not editing on the wiki? No, but neither does it mean that I'm adding much to the article count.

I guess the thing you need to ask yourself is what exact editing behaviour are you trying to highlight? When you figure that out, maybe we can find an API solution for you.