Wikipedia:Edits Per Day
This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously. |
This page in a nutshell: If your EPD is lower than 50, then you are a failure at Wikipedia. Despair! |
EPD, or edits per day, is the most important number for
If you edit too much, you might purposely stop editing for a day to prove that you are not a
Importance
This section in a nutshell: Your EPD is more valuable than you. |
Admins, pay attention. Your EPD should remain relatively high—over 9000. This rule also applies to wannabe admins. A total edit-count of at least 572,017 is recommended before putting in an RfA.[citation needed] New editors, take note: If you want the community's trust and respect, don't make good constructive edits. Instead, increase your total edit count and EPD with useless edits, and one day you may be an admin, possibly even a bureaucrat.
EPD may one day rank alongside total edit counts as a key determiner of an editor's dedication to Wikipedia, but it's already the most important number for evaluating your and other editor's worth.
Once you become an
If you want to be in the ArbCom, being an administrator is not a joking matter as jokers will not become Arbitrators unless they are tricky.
Illness
This section in a nutshell: Don't believe them. |
Some
Community goals
This section in a nutshell: Encyclopedias are boring and Wikipedia is not, further irrefutable and logically-sound proof that Wikipedia isn't one. |
The goal of Wikipedia is building an article-editing community where the editor with the greatest number of edits gets all the girls (Oh yeah!). Editors may then be crowned as royalty, and eventually ascend to divinity. Any rumours you have heard about creating the best
Twinkle
This section in a nutshell: Twinkle rules. |
Remember,
You can find more EPD-increasing tools on Category:Wikipedia EPD-increasing tools.
Huggle
This section in a nutshell: Huggle is the ultimate EPD increasing tool!!! |
If your EPD is falling and you can't find anything to revert, then get
Rollback
This section in a nutshell: Rollback is better than Twinkle or Huggle, but not both combined! |
In the early days of Wikipedia, only
Editcount fairy
This section in a nutshell: Mythological creatures eat edit summaries. |
The Editcount Fairy is a mythical creature that lives on Wikipedia servers and eats edit summaries for a living. The more edits you do, the more the fairy can eat. Think of the fairies!
Previous employments: Tooth fairy, Photography modeling, Maleficent.
Edit summaries and preview buttons
This section in a nutshell: Never use them. Ever. |
The edit summary boxes are just a bureaucratic device intended to reduce your EPD. Ignore them! (Certainly where there are default messages, entering additional information would be an implied slight to the folks who went to all the trouble of programming them.) (And yes, we know that this is in immediate contradiction to the Editcount Fairy section above. We will also not elaborate on this contradiction or attempt to fix it.)
The so-called "preview buttons" beneath the edit summary box are evil! They lower your EPD by showing you your spelling typos and mistakes that tempt you into fixing them in 1 edit! Don't! If you do not use them, you will have to fix your typos again and again and again (etc.) in an endless number of edits! Your EPD will soar to possibly over a googolplex! So basically, don't even look at them.
All is well with the server
This section in a nutshell: Pigeons have a higher EPD than you. |
The Wikipedia developer's opinion is that the editors shouldn't worry about causing too much server load:
“ | As a technical matter, it's (the developer's responsibility) to keep the system running well enough for what the sites require. (...) If and when we need to restrict certain things, we'll do so with technical measures. | ” |
So, if excessive edits ever become a problem, then the developers will wave their magic wand and they will solve it with a technical measure. See? There's nothing to be worried about. Now get back to artificially inflating your EPD, I can already hear it dropping below unacceptable levels while you are reading this instead of editing more!
Also, Wikipedia runs partially on hardware donated by Google, and everybody knows that Google has infinite amounts of hardware and bandwidth and runs on renewable resources.[2]
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Wikipedia developers, controlling the EPD at the servers
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Your edit count is stored on the third chip from the top left
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You are not a true Wikipedia editor until you destroy one of the servers with your edits!
See also
- Editcountitis, the big lie
- Pigeons, they edit faster than you...
- ... as do, theoretically, monkeys
References
- ^ If you do this, you are really just a geek in denial. You will become even more of a geek when you realize you have to make up for the lost day of editing.
- ^ "The technology behind Google's great results".