Help talk:User contributions/Archive 2

WTF?
For some unknown reason, a lot of people seem to think that this page is a good place to put advertisements for their pet projects. Can anyone explain this phenomenon? - Frankie1969 (talk) 13:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I was wondering why you thought here was a good place to ask that question you just asked. uKER (talk) 11:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Tag filter
The form has an input field of "Tag filter". Are there any notes on what this is for and how it may be used? Examples preferred! Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 11:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The word "Tag" is linked to Special:Tags. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:11, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I've looked there, but I still don't know how one would use it. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 14:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Enter one of the tags from the tag name column in the tag field. For example, enter  at Special:RecentChanges to get edits which were tagged with blanking. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:39, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course it also works for individual users but there are usually few or no tagged edits. Try  at Special:Contributions/66.20.39.193 for an example with 3 hits. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:43, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I tried the example you gave and now I understand. However, when tried against my (untagged!) username the query just went to sleep (no response after 120 seconds). Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 14:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Maybe it took more than 60 seconds but I eventually got "No changes were found matching these criteria" when searching blanking at Special:Contributions/Jan1nad. Your appear to have no tags of any kind. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:00, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

User contributions to a specific page
Recently, I remember seeing a special page that allowed me to display a list of contributions that a specific user made to a page starting with "foo". I can't remember what it is. This would be useful to bring up records of my own edits to specific articles. Can anyone help? ~Amatulić (talk) 23:59, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Searching from year/month (and later) filter?
Hi. I looked around, but didn't see any mention of this, so if this has already been discussed, please just point me to the existing conversation and I'll take it from there. When trying to track down IP-hopping vandals (in particular, those situations where someone may be physically moving from computer to computer, such as among a group of computers in a public library, for example), I'd like to be able to limit my edit search to only the most recent edits. In other words, the "From year (and earlier), From month (and earlier)" filters really don't do me much good. Also, I'm not sure how the edits are indexed within the WP database, but I would imagine that the proposed "(and later)" switch would use less resources than the existing "(and earlier)" switch. Perhaps both switches could be offered as radio buttons, with the default set to whichever one is more popular or less resource-intensive. Cheers! -- Bgpaulus (talk) 21:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Add a Hatnote
Judging by the Feedback page, a lot of people seem to come here looking for information about creating a new article. Perhaps a hatnote should be added to send them to Articles for creation. Astronaut (talk) 09:54, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

What is Electronic Banking Crimes?
Even though the Term “Electronic Banking Crimes” is not defined, Literally, crime is an offence against a public law or an action that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. Hence, Electronic Banking Crimes can be described as any type of crime or illegal act, targeted towards Electronic Banking transactions, which adversely affects the security of transactions or sensitive data, for any kind of illegal gain or benefit, either monetary or otherwise, resulting in any loss to a bank or a customer of a bank.

( As in Project Work Report on Electronic Banking Crimes and Related Indian Laws, submitted by Rakhith.R, as a part of completion of Post Gratuate Diploma in Digital and Cyber Forensics at Institute of Forensic Science, Mumbai, in April 2010) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rakhithraveendran (talk • contribs) 04:54, 23 September 2010 (UTC) 

is there a general questions section?
where would i look? could not find a place under help for questions (76.120.39.39 (talk) 06:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC))

Edit request from Uzu85, 2 January 2011 "ophidophobia"
I would like to add a article about ophidophobia wich is; "An exaggerated or irrational fear of snakes."

Uzu85 (talk) 00:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC)


 * There is already an article at the more common spelling Ophidiophobia. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 173.65.205.86, 17 November 2010
edit semi-protected

PLWL - Progressive Left Wing Liberal

173.65.205.86 (talk) 21:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I beg your pardon? This does not relate in any way to the page Help:User contributions, but seems to be intended for another page. Please pose your request on the talk page of the intended page, or if possible make the edit you want yourself. Intelligent  sium  23:20, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

i want to see the page say aleph bet gimel dalet and so on; as this is the traditional way of writing. leave the abreveations out on the names of the original letters after all it changes the phonics and numerlogical values — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philotaaveti (talk • contribs) 01:55, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Uploaded files?
What happened with this option? As I recall, there was an option that separate list of files uploaded by users could be seen together with user contributions. Why this option was removed and is there a chance that it is turned on again? PANONIAN 08:32, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I still see the option, in the line of small print at the top - (talk | block log | uploads | logs | filter log). The screenshots in this help page are out of date. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:45, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought it was on the bottom, like in Wikimedia Commons. :) I see it too now. Thanks anyway. PANONIAN  16:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

4. Privacy
Deletion of IP address (but not the history) after 1.5 years would be preferable. Many of us are behind proxies and/or have dynamic IP addresses so they don't care what they post anyhow.

Also, law enforcement should not have a perpetual record of a crime committed with someone's stolen account, for example. 1.5 Years is plenty enough time for law enforcement, it's what Google and Yahoo BOTH do. See their privacy policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.184.3.179 (talk) 22:07, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I see edits not by me credited to my IP address
I don't know why that is. On my last computer there were vandalisms on it that got me several temporary bans. I figured I'd been hacked or something. Freakily, I see contributions credited to the IP address I'm on now that are older than my compter is the first place, so that the IP address shouldn't have even existed then. What the crap? 67.142.130.18 (talk) 02:46, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * This will help. Why create an account?  Mlpearc   powwow  03:02, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Feature suggestion: add a way to filter the list by type of edit
I'd like to be able to see just N (new pages) or m (minor edits) etc. Pcap ping  03:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I concur. I'd also like to hide my edits, IP's edits, and so on.  Anna Lincoln  07:34, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

A general way of including or excluding any combination of m, N and top would be ideal. How feasible is it? Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 11:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I was just wondering why we can't do this - I can see many uses for it. (Emperor (talk) 17:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC))


 * Yes, I'd support a way to do this as well.  Rcsprinter  (talk)  20:34, 4 July 2011 (UTC)


 * +1. A gui like iTunes' smart-playlists are pretty standard/well-understood.  not-just-yeti (talk) 14:43, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I'd love this. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 07:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

"Deleted only" checkbox beside the "Namespace" dropdown menu
What does the checkbox do? The Help page doesn't explain its function. Shuipzv3 (talk) 08:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It might need to be updated. Shuipzv3 (talk) 08:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Transfer of edits to another account
I am planning to move my contributions to another account that I will be using permanently, is that possible? FinnsDeal (talk) 09:11, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is possible, though I can't immediately find the help page that says this. What you can do, if the new account doesn't exist yet, is to rename your existing account - see Changing username. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Feature request: view edits that are responses to my recent edits
I'd like a view "User contributions; show only edits that are not latest revisions", ordered by date of my edit. That way, if I edited 'soccer' 5yrs ago and 'tennis' last week, and each page has had daily changes, I'll see the change to 'tennis' listed long before 'soccer'. This is useful since it helps me check if people have edited (or reverted) the change I just made recently. Note that this is rather non-standard sorting, and not a natural fit for the preceding feature suggestion. [I guess an ideal search would be 'show me any changes to the exact paragraphs I changed', but that's much harder to implement efficiently. This request is feasible and still very useful.]

One concern is that it might increase edit-wars if people can easily detect when others have modified their recent changes, but I suspect this wouldn't be too common. And the plus side is that if somebody reverts/edits a change of mine that I disagree with, I'll go to greater pains to support/explain the topic.

not-just-yeti (talk) 15:05, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. All above.  Rcsprinter  (talk)  17:07, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. All above. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 18:59, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Support --GoingBatty (talk) 17:32, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Feature request: Only show edits that are latest contributions
Similar to:
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As an alternative to the two similar requests linked above, I suggest including a new checkbox option called "Only show edits that are latest contributions" in the User Contributions special page. Checking this checkbox should show a list of only the latest contributions to each page in the contribution list, instead of all the contributions. Of course, the (top) contributions should be marked as such, but they should not be filtered out unless "Only show edits that are latest revisions" is checked.

For example, take an user who contributes to three pages A, B and C. The numbers of contributions are 12, 28 and 3 respectively. Only the contributions to A and B are latest revisions.
 * Normally, the user contributions page will show all 43 edits in their reverse chronological order.
 * When "Only show edits that are latest revisions" is checked, only the latest contributions to A and B are shown. That is, only 2 edits are shown, because they are also the (top) revisions.
 * When "Only show edits that are latest contributions" is checked (from normal state), the latest contributions to all the three pages are to be shown. That is, 3 edits are shown as they are the latest, regardless of whether they are (top) or not.

Tip: Instead of two checkboxes, you can also have one checkbox labelled "Only show edits that are" and followed by a drop-down combo box with items "latest revisions" and "latest contributions". (The word "latest" is suggested to be included in the combo box as it makes the options more meaningful as complete phrases.) -- ADTCTalk Ctrb. 07:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Additional notes: I have created a Javascript (for use in my account) to do the above described, however it only does the processing on what is already displayed on page (cannot do any server-side processing). You can see the Javascript at User:Agent007bond/common.js -- ADTCTalk Ctrb. 13:21, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * You know, I'd love to have the opposite - "Only show edits that are not the latest revisions". In this way, I can see what I've recently edited that was subsequently edited by someone else, without having to add every page I edit to the watchlist. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 18:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * That's already possible if you use the script User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, that's perfect. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 21:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI I've just adjusted it to work in all skins (so you can put it in Special:MyPage/common.js) and fixed the IE bug. Mark Hurd (talk) 05:39, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It really works well - thanks so much! GoingBatty (talk) 17:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

soxred93's Toolserver account expired
Since soxred93's toolserver account is expired, and User:Soxred93 has retired, should the "Edit count" and "Articles created" links at the bottom of the page be removed (or at least hidden until someone can take over the tools)? GoingBatty (talk) 03:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Finding number of contributions
This may seem trivial, but is there a way to easily find the number of contributions a user has made? QuasiAbstract (talk) 15:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I found the answer. QuasiAbstract (talk) 19:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

It's mentioned below. Should we not delete this section? Domiiiiii (talk) 05:22, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

How do I set up a new page?
I'd like to start a new page but I'm having difficulty. How do i go about this?

Thanks. PollyWordville (talk) 14:44, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I've left you some links on your talk page. One of them is all about creating your first article. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:24, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

User contributions format has changed?
The "User contributions" page format seems to have changed from when this page was written. The format used to be:

(hist) (diff) N/m

Now it is:

(diff | hist) .. (). .

It took me a while to figure out that the new value showed the change in length of the edited article (green for positive, red for negative). The page should be updated to show this new info (including the screen captures). --Dan Griscom (talk) 04:17, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree, and I thank Dan for explaining it here. Languagehat (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you! I agree: this should be explained somewhere on our contributions pages. Ramurf (talk) 03:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The page has already been updated; see point 12 at Help:User contributions. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Exporting contributions history
Special:Export lets me save the contribution history of a page, but how about the history of my own contributions? I export my own user (talk) pages, but I'd like to export/save my contributions across Wikipedia. --93.97.21.214 (talk) 21:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Error on page: (current) not (top)
This page claims that "(top)" is the tag for your revision being the last. It is currently "(current)". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas Tvileren (talk • contribs) 14:18, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * at least until someone changes it again. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Offset
May someone explain in this article how the parameter "offset" in the contributions' URL works? --Horcrux92 (talk) 11:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

IP range?
Is there a way to check for contributions from a range of IP addresses? 70.55.86.100 (talk) 21:35, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * As a follow-up to this, why does search for IP range not work (using wildcard asterisk)? I can search a specific address, but when I include it in a range search, nothing shows up. Nageh (talk) 11:23, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I was about to ask the same question, when I found that the IP range searchw ith asterisks doesn't work. SteveMcCluskey (talk) 22:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I got the answer on the Help Desk. Nageh (talk) 13:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added that you need a gadget. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:06, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Broken? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/46.235.152.24 shows changes that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/46.235.152* does not - it shows edits by .21 and .41 only - not these edits by .24 !  I have the gadget enabled, and was unable to search using CIDR - my attempts produce "No changes were found matching these criteria."


 * Yet, the help text states, "You may enter a CIDR range or append an asterisk to do a prefix search."--Elvey (talk) 20:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Is this the same problem as the one being discussed at Village pump (technical)? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:20, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointer. Related problem, certainly.  But note that I'm finding that when I do an actual CIDR search, it doesn't work AT ALL - even the 2012 edits by .21 and .41 don't show up.--Elvey (talk) 01:46, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Claiming contributions made before account creation
Is it possible to claim old contributions that were made before a user created an account? I can pull up all my old contributions with my IP address, but I don't see a way to claim them as my own so that they will appear on my "my contributions" page. Mba123 (talk) 16:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)Mba123


 * No, this is not possible (it was) years ago. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Will this ever be brought back? I have a lot of updates from my IP address that I made back when I either forgot to log in or back when I didn't have an account. ChrisSimpson (talk) 21:32, 2 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I haven't heard of considerations to bring it back. If you don't want to hide your IP address for privacy reasons then you can mention the connection on the talk or user pages of your IP and account. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:29, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

are you sure? I find this a bit daft — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sypashley (talk • contribs) 14:56, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Date Range Search
Would it be possible to modify this page so you could limit the search to a range of dates. That becomes especially useful when looking for edits coming from a range of IP addresses. Usually such a search produces an unmanageable list of results. Date limits would limit the results so you could identify related edits coming from an IP range.

Thanks --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 19:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Can't find
I have looked a few user pages and can't see a link to a user contribution page in any of the menus at top, left or bottom of the page, every user page seems to have a unique layout but on none of them can I see a link to their contributions. 86.136.104.132 (talk) 18:29, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Look in the left sidebar, directly underneath the big Wikipedia "Globe" image. You should see "Main page" and then five more links, then a group of links called "Interaction", then a group of links called "Tools". Click the "Tools" link to see the options within that group; one of them is "User contributions". -- John of Reading (talk) 18:43, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

WikiChecker in the footer?
How about adding link to the WikiChecker ( http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=USERNAME ) into footer of the "contributions" page? There are already links to edit counts, articles created etc., and having this would be nice too &mdash; it's quite useful. Thoughts? -- Dsimic (talk) 01:31, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

search for specific text
I need to know when specific text was posted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.18.115.109 (talk) 12:35, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * To find when specific text was added to a page, go to that page's "History" tab and click on the tool near the top, "Revision history search". For more on that see WikiBlame. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

URL or link for checking one's own contributions
Does anyone know if there is some kind of shortcut for checking one's own contributions? This isn't a very important feature for people logged into user accounts since there is a link generated on the upper right, but it would be useful for people editing via IP addresses without logging into an account. Much like we have something like Special:ListUsers/Bureaucrat or Special:Log/delete as more specific searches within the ListUsers/Log commands, I am wondering if there is some kind of way that Special:Contributions could be altered to create a universal link to an editor's own contributions, like basically automatically generating the forward slash and either UserName or IPaddress which would normally show up were an editor to view their contributions via a page history (or sometimes signature). A link like this would be useful to mention at the start of this help page, particularly for IP editors editing via shared computers, who do not have an automatically generated link and may not know their IP address, as many of them cycle and even for those with a dedicated static IP they are hard-to-remember numbers compared to textual names.

Alternatively if we cannot include that link to bring awareness, if we could automatically generate that link for un-logged-in users as we do for the logged-in ones, that would be a huge asset to people remembering what they edited before. The feature exists already, all this would do is increase access to it. 184.146.159.4 (talk) 17:31, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * On a hunch I tried Special:MyContributions and it worked. See if that works for you as an IP. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Pages a user has created
How does one view pages created by oneself? I can't see anything suitable in the drop down; is there any other way of viewing such a list? Omitting redirects would also be nice, as I've probably created a lot more of those than actual articles. Richard001 (talk) 04:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/larticles/larticles.php?user=Richard001&lang=en seems to be what I was looking for, although it doesn't seem to be working for me now. Richard001 (talk) 02:58, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Dunno if anyone still cares, but this will be added to Special:Contribs on Thursday. πr2 (t • c) 20:02, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

How find out total number of contributions?
I keep reading people mention how many contributions people have made and there is even a box you can put on your user page. But I don't know where they are getting this data. I assume they are not counting 500 contributions at a time - or are they? Info on that in this article would be very helpful. Thanks. CarolMooreDC (talk) 03:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I put in this box and just noticed a link that takes me to a page that gives me all my stats! Maybe this needs to be on the page! CarolMooreDC (talk) 15:02, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You have waited a long time for a simple answer: click "My preferences" at the very top of any page. Chris the speller   yack  18:32, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * And you've waited an almost-as-long time for some thanks - Kudos. I'd been using other reports for years on Wikipedia, and wishing I had database dumps of other Mediawiki instances, when all I had to do was hit Special:Preferences. Oops. MrZaius  talk  10:13, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 March 2014
contribution1 and contribution2

Bojidara (talk) 10:19, 19 March 2014 (UTC) Please make a link
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. (t) Josve05a  (c) 10:23, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 May 2014
Joe.Mulu (talk) 07:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ". As this is a help page, you will need to obtain consensus before requesting a change. - Arjayay (talk) 07:40, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not requested a change.

Is there any reason the columns on the user contribution pages are not labeled?
Is there any reason the columns on rhe user contribution pages are not labeled atop the page?

Or in any case, why this article is not linked from each Contributions page?Daqu (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Which columns do you mean? Special:Contribs does have a link to Help:User contributions. See the top right corner. -- Glaisher  [talk]  17:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Do you mean you would like column headings like "Time", "Date", "Change", "Page name", "Edit summary" for contributions rows like these:
 * 18:12, 5 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+114)‎ . . Long Island ‎ (Fixed the name of the county (Kings) occupied by the borough of Brooklyn) (current)
 * 17:56, 5 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+331)‎ . . Help talk:User contributions ‎ (→‎Is there any reason the columns on the user contribution pages are not labeled?: new section)
 * They are lines and not organized in a table. The "columns" are simple but don't have fixed width and the lines can wrap so I don't think headings would be pretty or very useful.
 * If you don't have the "Help:User contributions" link at the top right of contributions pages then you probably changed language away from the default "en - English" at Special:Preferences. Users with the default see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Daqu?uselang=en. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:36, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for explaining that the data is not organized in a table.
 * It is still beyond idiotic that there is no header explaining just how the data is organized. On the same page, not merely linked to it.Daqu (talk) 13:12, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Additions and Brevity on Help Pages
Hello, Under the "privacy" section, I was wondering whether it would be worthwhile to expand the section to include that content on contribution pages can only be removed in certain circumstances. If I make a small addition, is that worthwhile, or is the extraneous for the purpose of the Help Project? Upjav (talk) 16:29, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Toolserver link expired
On the Help:User contributions page, the Total edit count section concludes with the recommendation:


 * For a summary of a user's activity on other language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects, type the following URL (replacing "XXX" by the name of the user):

Unfortunately, this currently produces an error page that starts with:
 * 403: User account expired

and ends with:
 * As Toolserver will be shutdown and most tools are already migrated please give feedback if you miss a tool.

Does anyone know if there's an updated URL for this "Total edit count" tool, that could replace the obsolete URL in Help:User contributions?

Many thanks. —Patrug (talk) 18:33, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I also noticed the dead link and I'm wondering the same thing. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 11:38, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It appears this does the job. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 11:42, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

intelligent scissors
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Gcbo zb (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:25, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Feature request: Filter by custom string in the edit summary
I would like to ask for this feature: filter the edits by custom strings. Sometimes I am placing certain texts in the "Edit summary" field, so I can find those edits later. For example in edits like this I place the string "overdue", to signal redirects that should have been created long ago. Or in edits like this I place the tag "TOFOLLOW", so I won't forget to check that discussion later. Maybe someone implemented this feature already on toolsever? —  Ark25  (talk) 08:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is already available. At the bottom of the contributions list is a link "Edit summary search". -- John of Reading (talk) 09:17, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 December 2014
Languages Main article: Languages of Afghanistan Pashto and Dari (Persian) are the official languages of Afghanistan; bilingualism is very common.[1] Both are Indo-European languages from the Iranian languages sub-family. Dari has always been the prestige language and a lingua franca for inter-ethnic communication. It is the native tongue of the Tajiks, Hazaras, Aimaks, and Kizilbash.[157] Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, although many Pashtuns often use Dari and some non-Pashtuns are fluent in Pashto.

Other languages, including Uzbek, Arabic, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi, and Nuristani languages (Ashkunu, Kamkata-viri, Vasi-vari, Tregami, and Kalasha-ala), are the native tongues of minority groups across the country and have official status in the regions where they are widely spoken. Minor languages also include Pamiri (Shughni, Munji, Ishkashimi, and Wakhi), Brahui, Hindko, and Kyrgyz. A small percentage of Afghans are also fluent in Urdu, English, and other languages.

Language World Factbook / Library of Congress Country Studies estimate[34][158] Dari 50% Pashto 35% Uzbek and Turkmen 11% 30 minor languages 4% on page "Afghanitan", under 4. Demographics, under 4.2, Languages, for Dari language the percentage entered shows 35%, where in fact according to CIA World Factbook and Library of Congress Country Studies the percentage for Dari language is %50. By visiting any of the links below, it'll take you to the CIA Factbook page, and library of Congress COuntry Studies. Both are reliable sources. Please grant me the permission to make a correction or do it yourself. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Afghanistan.pdf

Homie222 (talk) 00:04, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Could you please specify what correction you would like to be made? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:31, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Done. The appropriate place to request an edit on the Afghanistan article would be Talk:Afghanistan, though. Huon (talk) 00:47, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Filter by string in page name
I was wondering if it was possible to search my contributions for specific pages or pages with specific strings in the title. I can't seem to find a way to do it. SPACKlick (talk) 17:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Here's how you can do it for specific pages:
 * Go to the specific page. (e.g. Roger Moore)
 * Click on the View History tab.
 * Click on the "Edits by User" link.
 * Enter your username and click.
 * Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 20:10, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Definition of "contributions"
We really need to inform editors that any change to any page (or adding a new page, or deleting an old one) is a contribution in Wikipedia's terms. A good dictionary will give you several different definitions of the word, so we need one here to nail down our own usage in case of a dispute, so I added a suggestion to our lead and pointed people here as part of a WP:BRD. Thanks for considering this. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 04:14, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Reassigning anonymous edits
I made some edits under the IP address : 124.198.202.95 at various times (I forgot to log in). Is there any way those edits could be redesignated as having been made by me? If so, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! David Cannon (talk) 23:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That's not possible, but there's some advice at WP:LOGGEDOUT. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks anyway. David Cannon (talk) 06:34, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

More info on the char count field
I've noticed that some of the green or red count of character changes are bold but most are not. What is the significance of that bolding?? WesT (talk) 17:56, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Point 12 at Help:User contributions ends with a link to Added or removed characters, which explains that the bolding draws attention to size changes bigger than 500 characters. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:22, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Thank you for the direction. There are so many help pages to read, with so much detailed information, I am impressed with the level of work involved. Thanks again. WesT (talk) 18:47, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 June 2015
Saurav Joshi (born 28 June 1994) is an Indian business magnate ho is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of joshi brother Limited (JBL),a fortune global 50 company and India's first most valuable company by market value the world's most expensive property.[1] He holds a 34.7% stake in the company. he is the small son of the Vijay Kumar and the brother of Gaurav Joshi.{JBL] diamond supply in the abroad ,petrochemicals. another subsidiary is the largest retailer in European country.

In 2014, he was ranked 40 on Forbes list of the world's most powerful people and in 2010, he was included in Forbes's list of "80 people who matter most . As of 2013, he is India's richest man and tenth richest man in spain. Joshi is listed as the 29th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of $13.6 billion.

He has served on the board of directors DBS of Bank of Corporation and the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the chairman of the board of Spain Institute of Management Bangalore, which is one of the leading business schools in Spain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saurav joashi (talk • contribs) 13:27, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This isn't the correct page for this. This particular page is for requests for Special:Contributions. You may want to start a draft article  for Saurav Joshi  on this page .  Be aware that you'll need to have reliable sources to show that this individual is notable.   KoshVorlon  We are all Koshundefined  17:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Edit request on the field "Subpages"
When a username is placed in this page, and you click "Subpages", it automatically inserts "/" after the username, this then searches for any subpage for User:username/ ( for example if I insert my name, it will search for subpages for KoshVorlon/  rather than KoshVorlon.  Can that trailing "/" be removed, otherwise  the subpage function won't work right.   KoshVorlon  We are all Koshundefined
 * For many users the slash is essential. For example, try listing the 17 subpages for . If you remove the slash and refresh the list, you'll see several screens full of pages that have nothing to do with that user. In your case the only difference between the two listings is that your user page is omitted from the list with the slash; I think this is correct because your user page is not one of your subpages. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Watching user contribs?
Is there any way to watch or track a user so I could be updated anytime that user makes an edit? There is no "watch" tab on user contrib pages. I posted this question on Help:watching pages and got no response. Fredwerner (talk) 07:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I don't think there is a way of doing that (unless someone's written a special tool for doing so).--Kotniski (talk) 07:46, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * | Would this help? It won't notify you but I think this is what you want. - Warthog Demon  22:30, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The ability to "watch" a user's contributions page and receive change notices in the same way we do an article would be enormously helpful, especially to those of us who spend much of our time here combatting vandalism. While many vandals will target specific articles, many more do not, and will hop from article to article making a mess. Certainly, these kinds of vandalism are usually dealt with in short order, but it would go a lot faster and be a lot more consistent if we could watch their contribs. be siege d talk 00:30, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I support this request. There is a longstanding but dormant request at Bugzilla 470. It was also raised at VP in 2007 and 2013, the last of which said there was a workaround using RSS. I tried the Atom RSS feed button on the Contributions page in Safari and Chrome without success, but it seems to work in Firefox. – Fayenatic  L ondon 17:06, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * This feature would also be nice for keeping tabs on my student workers (i.e., not just for watching vandals). I'll try the RSS workaround. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:21, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

A deleted user page hides edits?
So, if someone has their user page deleted but still has a talk page, thus leaving them with a red name but still allowing them to make named edits, does that make their contributions page inaccessible?--tronvillain (talk) 20:05, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Apparently I was just not copying the username properly - the contributions page is clearly still accessible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tronvillain (talk • contribs) 20:07, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia neutrality
Wikipedia neutrality is very sick: Category:Jewish_scientists exists since 2005, and the category Category:Muslim_scientists was deleted several times !!! WHY ?!!!Sbeitlian (talk) 23:39, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 12 has the answer: User:T. Anthony wrote "The Jewish one can be considered ethnicity or nationality". GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * "The Jewish one can be considered ethnicity or nationality"!!! Do you consider this a coherent answer? Do you know a nationality called Jewish? Or Jewish is an ethnicity and Muslim is not ? :) Sbeitlian (talk) 22:01, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That quotation looks like a mistake. In Wikipedia categories, "Jewish" is considered an ethnicity or a religion. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

This is just my two cents: A Jewish scientist who is non-observant is not an issue from either side. A scientist who is Muslim by birth may face "difficulties" if listed as such and then, for example, publicly drinks alcohol (prohibited). Perhaps a better example would be if TWO scientists, one Islamic, one Jewish, ate pork in a restaurant and happened to be photographed, whose life is more likely to be in danger? The religious of both groups see the camera above (a matter of religious teaching) to be the one that counts, but for those who wish to have more (peaceful) years here ... I know, I know, this doesn't even pass muster for a TALK page. . . signed --passing by. PLEASE: whoever deletes this, please rewrite it to Wiki standards - I don't wish to light a match to cause harm, just perhaps a candle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.251.58.179 (talk) 00:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Search tag: undid
I don't find "undid" in Special:Tags so I can list all reversed edits in my Contributions for example. I would like Wikipedia to add the "undid" tag. --Gstree (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Diff current revision with my current revision
I suggest that we add "diff current" next to "diff" (see https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py?name=Gstree&page=Oxytocin&max=500&server=enwiki for example). --Gstree (talk) 10:11, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Only show edits that are NOT latest revisions
I wish I could invert the selection implied in "Only show edits that are latest revisions", so that I could check what pages have changed since I last edited them. Is this possible? If not, is there a bugtracker where I could submit a wishlist ticket? Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 00:00, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The core software doesn't support this, but it is possible with an add-on script. See User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib for instructions. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:28, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I would find this useful, too. I think it would be nice to have it as a standard feature, but I'll check out User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib. --Macrakis (talk) 19:58, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

I did not see anything on Marion Ross appearing in this episode of Mannix. She appears to have vital information Mannix needs but ends up driving off a cliff in Mannix's car while a passenger. The brakes of the car were tampered with. She ends up surcoming to her injuries. Peter morin (talk) 16:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Report abuse
In "Revision history", I think it would be useful to add a "report abuse" link next to "thank". --Gstree (talk) 21:08, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You might be interested in the WP:TWINKLE tool which has relevant functionalities. These are displayed on diffs and not on revision history pages though. Also note that vandalism typically just gets undone and the editor warned − so typically nothing is "reported" in that sense with exceptions. Other than that also see: Revision deletion. --Fixuture (talk) 23:20, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2017
A bokashi compost done properly will turn food waste to dirt in six weeks. 46.195.10.102 (talk) 16:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Help:User contributions. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. Izno (talk) 16:26, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

"Highlighted" edits?
Recently, when I browsed through some users' contributions, I noticed that there's one edit being highlighted: https://image.ibb.co/gBaXHw/Screenshot_2017_12_10_11_22_04.png

The help page didn't explain about this, so I'm wondered what does it mean. NotCory (talk) 04:37, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

suggestion
I suggest there should be information on this page pertaining to what to do in case someone believes another user is vandalizing pages or acting poorly in some other way. 12.15.136.26 (talk) 20:41, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

"contributions"
The "contributions" choice following "watchlist" suddenly produces a special page with no entries at all. What am I doing wrong? I am running Windows 7 Professional with Mazilla Firefox 57.0.2 (64 bit) browser.


 * Same result with Windows Explorer.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 20:13, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I think PrimeHunter has nailed this one at WP:VPT. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:41, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried finding a solution at WP:VPT, but couldn't find one. I know I have hundreds of contributions, but I'm just getting a blank page saying "No changes were found matching these criteria." Is it something to do with Javascript? Cause I didn't make any changes to my computer and suddenly I can't see ANYONE'S contribs. PUNKMINKIS (TALKYTALK) 19:46, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's been archived at Village pump (technical)/Archive 161 -- John of Reading (talk) 20:41, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that worked! PUNKMINKIS (TALKYTALK) 20:59, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Relevance of external link needs clarification
User:Lotje added a link here that has no obvious connection to the topic of this page that I can see.

Lotje and others, if there is a connection that I missed, would you please add a brief explanation next to the link? If there is none, please delete the entire section. Thanks! —Geekdiva (talk) 10:30, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

What are deleted contributions?
Hi, just wondering why the edit-count tool at https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/A1415 says I have 1 deleted contribution and links me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ADeletedContributions%2FA1415 which says I don't have permission to see it even though I'm logged in as the one who made it? spooky. A1415 (talk) 09:44, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * From the Glossary, a "Deleted edit" is "an edit that is no longer listed in an editor's contributions because the page has subsequently been deleted". Only admins are allowed to see them, so I can't help you track it down either. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks A1415 (talk) 22:44, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Searching within contributions
Is it possible to search for a keyword within a user's contributions? I want to find something another editor said on a talk page a while back, so I want to search the user's contributions for a specific word used in the edit and find the diff. Hidden Tempo (talk) 19:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's possible. Have you tried searching for the keyword and the editor's name, restricting by namespace? -- John of Reading (talk) 20:00, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Would like to see this feature as well. It would be a useful tool for investigating. What would be the best page to add this suggestion? Veritycheck✔️ (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * +1 to this, would also like to know where it can be suggested. --Viennese Waltz 07:14, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Popup
Is there a way to disable the contributions button popping up whenever my mouse happens to pass over it? I couldn't find an option for this in my preferences and I have accidentally clicked on "Contributions"/"Translations"/etc. in this menu many times, and I'd like to keep this from happening again. IntoThinAir (talk) 17:18, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Disable "Automatically enable all new beta features" and "Content Translation" at Special:Preferences. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:00, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It worked, thanks! IntoThinAir (talk) 21:22, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

What does "r" mean?
In Special:Contributions/AllaboutBahrain, the first edit is tagged with "rN". The "N" means "new", but I don't see anything that explains what "r" means. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If you use a desktop web browser, you can hover the mouse pointer over the underlined r and see a tool-tip saying 'This edit needs review.' If you look at Special:RecentChanges or your Special:Watchlist, you'll see a small frame above the main listing, with a title List of abbreviations or Legend, respectively. It contains a short description of those single-letter marks at some edits. The r mark is described as 'Edit flagged by O R ES'. The acronym denotes objective revision evaluation services which is described at the linked page.
 * HTH. (Yes, I know it's a late answer, but I hope better late than later.) CiaPan (talk) 08:56, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , for more information about what CiaPan described, see Help:Watchlist. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:12, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Legend?
The Watchlist and RecentChanges show a legend. Something (that used to be) like the box on the right. Could the User contributions page show one too? &mdash; Ghost in the machine talk to me 06:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles created except redirects
Hi. Is it possible to configure user contributions to show only articles created except redirects? Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 16:27, 1 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Found this xtool: Pages Created. fgnievinski (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Is IPv6 supported in IP range search?
An IP range search can use a CIDR range such as 10.0.0.0/8 or a wildcard asterisk, such as 10.11.12.* or 192.168.*. does the user contribution special page support IP version 6 wildcards? Example from CIDR page: the IPv6 block 2001:db8::/48 represents the block of IPv6 addresses from 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0 to 2001:db8:0:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can use the CIDR syntax to look up user contributions from IPv6 blocks, like this. Shadowjonathan (talk) 11:29, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Inverse tag filter
Is there a way to show only edits that do not have a particular tag? Specifically I'd like to view contributions while exluding anything with the "mw-new-redirect" tag. Alternatively, there's a checkbox for "Only show edits that are latest revisions" but it would be awfully nice to only show edits that are not the latest revisions. Thanks, Reywas92Talk 04:59, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Never mind on the first part, tags only go back to 2018 anyway. I want to exlude any redirects when looking at contributions, is anything like this possible? Reywas92Talk 05:06, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Wow
thank you a lot for giving me the scoop on how well to edit Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlantic Channel (talk • contribs) 21:52, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! FinalForm (talk) 00:39, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

How to delete my Wikipedia account permanently
Please delete my account permanently JVMAURANIPUR (talk) 10:16, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * It is not possible to delete an account - see Username_policy. GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Search by content?
Is it possible to search user contributions by content? For example, I'd to find my edits containing the word "merge", where I have inserted the template:merge. Thanks! fgnievinski (talk) 00:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)


 * sorry fg, this is tlk about this help page - for specific help ask at Teahouse Lee&there4;V 11:50, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Page hangs with IPv6 range + date range
Searching for e.g. 2603:8001:9442:6D00::/64 works fine, but searching for the range between 2021-07-10 and 2021-07-13 hangs. Searching Talk instead of all namespaces doesn't help. Yappy2bhere (talk) 19:33, 21 July 2021 (UTC)