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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! — SpikeToronto 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 contact Fandom Staff and see - or revise your own policy (for example, asking them to give a link to a wiki where they have significant contributions) RandomTime 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.  Monchoman45  Talk  Contribs  Skystone  13:04,5/2/2011 

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! — SpikeToronto 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.  Monchoman45  Talk  Contribs  Skystone  14:07,5/2/2011 

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! — SpikeToronto 08:02, May 10, 2011 (UTC)