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I watch my numbers and I am proud of them. Sometimes, I share them with others. Does that make me guilty of editcountitis? I just wanted to say that just someone is curious about their numbers and their progress, don’t immediately assume that it is all about the numbers for them. Just my two cents worth

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If editcountitis is something to be guilty of, I would be guilty too… I like to set goals and milestones, and achieve them, and in my opinion, if someone does like to look at thier stats, it isn’t different from sporting statistics or in my case, keeping count of how many fish I catch or how many pounds of pecans I pick up. Not that my contributions are as substantial as NABing a new article, or creating one from scratch, but it is the sum total of all the big and little things that everyone does that keeps wikiHow on course.

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I don’t think there’s any problem with watching your contribution numbers for keeping up with personal goals/milestones/achievements (like @BR said), because it can be interesting to see if you’ve reached them by the end of a day, week, month, etc. I only think it becomes editcountitis when someone (especially editors who may not be very familiar with how to do certain things yet on wikiHow) announces a huge public campaign of theirs to make 500 patrols per person in 1 day or add 1,000 pictures in a week or whatever the case may be. It can’t be stressed enough - quality over quantity, and I think that means a lot when it comes to differentiating between “healthy” number watching and editcountitis.

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Hell, I’ll admit to looking at my user page now and again for the updated stats. I’m pretty quiet about things anyways, but it’s just more of a personal achievement than anything else in the world. Like Jordan, editcountitis is when it’s something brought on the table in a more “competitive” value. If you spent all day patrolling and have achieved a certain amount of patrols, good for you. But re-think – was all of the content thoroughlyreviewed and approved to the best of your knowledge? If someone added a video, did you thoroughly watch it and thought it matched the article as the best candidate, or did you patrol the video because someone added it? If someone created a new article, did you think it was okay to patrol “as is” in the state it was in or did you patrol it because “just because”? If someone were to categorize an article, did you double check on whether the destination was the best suited or patrolled it because the article was “categorized”?

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Guilty is charged. I sometimes count, i.e. I look every so often at my contributions number, but I don’t rush at all, and even if I did, what would I gain? We want wikiHow to be high quality, so, like I said, I do look at my numbers sometimes, but I don’t set outrageous goals like “I’m going to make 1000 edits in one day!” things, more like, making 1000 edits in five years. (Or two, which ever’s first.) June Days

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I think it’s okay to count as long as you don’t take the easy way out in an attempt to make your numbers larger. Every edit should be a good one, and every message/discussion should be a sensible one. If people had a real problem with editcountitis, then how come there are mainspace edit requirements for NAB/(in some cases)Admin?

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I do big edits and small ones. Each one is an edit, and each one I’m proud of.:slight_smile:Yes, I watch my numbers, and set goals for myself…but isn’t that a good thing to have something to look forward to?

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Totally agree, @ttrimm ! It’s awesome to take pride in your numbers. That’s why they’re there. Milestones make people happy and volunteers are here to do stuff that makes them feel happy and fulfilled. @Progressive makes a great distinction too. One thing is looking at your numbers, and feeling good about how much you’ve accomplished. Bragging to others about your numbers is a whole 'nother thing! When you start comparing your numbers to those of other people, or announcing them like it’s a race, that’s when it gets iffy.

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Sorry, but I really don’t count them or have any eager to see them. I also never set any goal to do, because due to this I may go too fast and miss any vandalism, also good works to give the editor a thumbs up. I have slow internet connection, so sometimes I clicked twice on “Mark as patrolled” and when I was noticed, I saw that was a vandalism what I patrolled. So I prefer to use old RC than new RC Patrol app and while patrolling I double check my patrol and take a look at edit history, if I find any suspicious edit, then I check them. Sometimes this extra effort gives its result and I find vandalism that was slipped. I know this is not where I should tell this, but just another thing to pay attention while patrolling. If you see any edit from Broken Link Removal bot, please check that it’s removing only broken link not anything else.

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What you’re all describing isn’t editcountitis. Editcountitis is where your for you, quantity becomes more important than quality. You are not describing that. You are describing taking pride in your edits because they are high quality. Editcountitis is taking pride in your edits because you’ve done a lot of them.

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There are edit requirements for such to allow the existing administrators/the person reviewing NAB to actually know if the person in question knows what they are doing on the site. It’s not justthe numbers, but the quality of them as well. You can use the image adder tool 50 times to make 100 contributions (1 each for uploading the image and 1 each for putting the image in the article). But is it really 100 contributions or 50? Some people would consider the “real” number to be less since the image adder can be a no-brainer at times.

What? Yes, it defines as when quantity overrides quality in people’s minds, but it’s also when quantity is the only thing in the mind. There’s a very big difference when a person’s mind is geared towards goals and shared by taking pride in achieving them versus when a person’s mind works hard, the work is done thoroughly, and then shared by taking pride in achieving them.