Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5601098-20140422090931/@comment-856287-20140622221820

Kallie Jo wrote: I've been having the same problem. Kirkburn told me the Special:Editcount and the editcount on your userpage are counted differently. That sounds about right. I would guess the count on your profile page is not counting minor edits or something, while the special page is including everything. I don't know exactly.

...but then, who cares? Edit counts don't matter. I have thousands of edits on my wiki, and probably 50% of them are just me going back and fixing a typo (+1 edit), and then noticing I made a mistake (+1 edit), and then deciding to change the color (+1 edit), and then deciding to change it back (+1 edit). Most of my edits on Community Central are probably the same, except on my own forum posts :D

Edit counts are pretty meaningless except to see if someone has more than 100 or so (they're actually contributing and not just stopping by), or more than 1,000 or so (they're quite involved in the success of the wiki and a good person to ask questions about how the wiki is being run and organized). As long as the edit count isn't 0, I wouldn't care, but that's just me :D