User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: January 27, 2015/@comment-4129195-20150130143053/@comment-452-20150202162546

Is the "edits" column insanely high for anyone else?

If not, then I think that null edits are being counted in that column... I'll do a test.

Edit: Confirmed, null edits are recorded in the edits column. (I made 158 null edits to my test wiki)