Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/Instructions

How to Generate This List


 * 1) If you have Toolserver access
 * 2) * Run this query:
 * 3) * Wait 10–20 minutes for it to finish.
 * 4) Otherwise
 * 5) Download and install Perl. For Windows, try ActivePerl.
 * 6) Save the following code as wbe.pl:
 * 7) Download a database dump from download.wikimedia.org/enwiki; you want the latest available file with a name similar to "WIKINAME-DATE-stub-meta-history.xml."
 * 8) At the command line, run "perl wbe.pl WIKINAME-DATE-stub-meta-history.xml >> results.txt"
 * 9) Crop the resulting list to approximately 5000 edits.
 * 10) Remove the bots, IP addresses and replace the anonymous editors with  Place holder, and format the list, maybe by running it through a regex filter to link/format all of the names. The following regex filter is for C#:
 * 11) Upload!