User contributions pages list the edits that a particular user has made. These pages are wiki specific, so a user contributions page for WoWWiki will not show the edits that user has made to Wookieepedia or any other Wikia wiki.
Checking your contributions is useful to refresh your memory about which pages you have worked on (and to easily access these again), but can also be used to find out whether there have been any subsequent edits (see below). This makes it possible to "watch" pages even if you haven't put them on your watchlist. Other users' user contribution pages can also be accessed and are useful for seeing how other users have contributed. They can be used to track down vandals, copyright violations, etc.
Accessing a user contributions page
Note that all contributions pages are in the form Special:Contributions/USERNAME, enabling easy linking. For example, Special:Contributions/Example.
Accessing your own user contributions page
- To access your own user contributions page, click Special:Mycontributions, or "My contributions" under the menu at the top of the page.
Accessing other user's user contributions page
- If the user has an account (username): bring up the user page and click User contributions in the sidebar toolbox - this works even if the user page has not been edited yet (i.e. an edit box displays).
- If the user has no login name, click on the IP address in Recent Changes or Page History.
See also
- Help:User contributions on Wikipedia, upon which this page was based.