Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130927224851/@comment-3523404-20131202154705

Sorry for the necrophilia, but I feel this is an issue we can't let die. As an aside, I'm surprised no one knew this about how edit count is tallied. The edit count displayed on the user page is an amalgamation of all namespace edits. However, what counts as an "edit" is automatically calculated by the wiki software, based on the number of characters changed in a post. It's not a 1:1 ratio, more like 10:1. That is, for every ten characters changed in an article, 1 edit point is added for that namespace. Edits flagged as "minor" are automatically tallied as 1 edit point, regardless of the number of characters changed. So, even if you only change 2 characters in an article, 1 edit point for that namespace is applied to your username. If you add four paragraphs of text, you accumulate around 50-100 edit points.