User talk:UBX/WikiGlobalEdits

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Created talk page for the WikiGlobalEdits userbox template - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 15:42, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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--- HELP: Needs Userbox code? ---

Copied from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#HELP: Needs Userbox code? (Drbogdan (talk) 00:53, 18 September 2017 (UTC))

IF Possible - At present, {{User UBX/WikiGlobalEdits}} (or "User:UBX/WikiGlobalEdits" ) on a user page (for example, see userbox below - or - in the middle right column of the "User:Drbogdan" profile) - requires that a specific UserName be manually added to the "Global Edit Counter" ( at https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/ ) - and then - the resulting edit counts needs to be manually added to the template ( for example, {{User:UBX/WikiGlobalEdits|[https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/ 55,002]}} )

This user has made over 55,002
contributions to Wikimedia projects.

QUESTION: Is there a way of performing this procedure more automatically - by adding relevant coding?

Thanking you in advance for any help with this - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

You can ask for template help at Wikipedia:Requested templates. I have coded it to automatically make the link based on the page name. Wikitext doesn't have access to edit counts or query results so that part can only be automated if a bot or other tool periodically stores the counts for users of the userbox. They could be stored in a central page like User:UBX/WikiGlobalEdits/counts and automatically be read from there but somebody (not me) would have to code and run the bot. It could be requested at Wikipedia:Bot requests. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:21, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

By the way, the userbox currently says "on Wikipedia" but https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/ includes all Wikimedia wikis, e.g. Commons, Wikidata and so on. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:25, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

There also exists a MediaWiki module to allow a special variable to expand to an edit count but it is not enabled and may never be (it was proposed and challenged, if I remember). There's an optional JS gadget for users to see their count (but that obviously doesn't update it for other editors). —PaleoNeonate – 22:37, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter and PaleoNeonate: Thank you *very much* for the *Excellent* comments - and suggestions - they're all *greatly* appreciated - may have to do a bit more homework with this to sort things out - in any case - Thanks again for the help - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 00:19, 18 September 2017 (UTC)