Help:User contributions

User contributions pages are automatically generated pages that list the edits that an individual particular user has made to Saintapedia.

You can check your own contributions by click on "My Contributions" in the Help:Account bar to:

• refresh your memory about which pages you have worked on
• easily access the articles you have edited recently and
• find out whether there have been any subsequent edits

This can be a useful quick alternative to accessing your watchlist, particularly if your watchlist contains a large number of pages. Other users' user contribution pages can also be accessed and are useful for seeing how other users have contributed.

User contributions pages

Accessing

• Your own contributions page. To access your own user contributions page, click my contributions at the top of the page, or type in the Search box: Special:MyContributions.
• Another user's contributions page. To access the contributions of a logged-in user, go to the user page (e.g. User:Example) and click on the User contributions link listed under the Toolbox menu on the left-hand side of the screen. This works even if the user page has not been created yet (i.e. an edit box displays).

Example contribution page

Below is an example of a user contributions page:

1. The username of the contributor, followed by links to various logs.
2. This part of the search form allows you to search by username.
3. These controls allow you to search by namespace, for example to see only contributions made to templates. The "Invert selection" checkbox displays contributions to namespaces other than the selected namespace. The "Associated namespace" checkbox displays edits to the selected namespace and its talk namespace - for example, the "Template" and "Template talk" namespaces.
4. The "Tag filter" is not available in our version of MediaWiki.
5. The "deleted only" is not available in our version of MediaWiki.
6. The year and month fields allow a quick jump when a user has made many contributions.
7. Click the "Search" button to redisplay the list after changing any of these selection controls.
8. A list of edits, shown from newest to oldest. Each edit takes up one line which contains:
9. The time and date of the edit, displayed in your preferred format.
10. (diff) takes you to a diff page showing the changes between that edit and the previous revision. The revision after the edit appears below the changes so you can see the result of the edit.
11. (hist) takes you to the page history, so you can see all edits made to that page. This can be useful if someone has updated a page you have worked on, and you want to see their changes.
12. The difference in size between this revision and the previous revision. A green number with a plus sign (+1,864) indicates that the edit added this number of bytes (roughly corresponding to characters) to the page, while a red number with a minus sign (-29) indicates removal. See more at Wikipedia:Added or removed characters.
13. The current name of the page that was edited.
14. This is the edit summary. It is the text the user wrote in the edit summary box (below the edit box).
15. This edit summary begins with an arrow link and grey text. This means the user has only edited a section of the page (named in the grey text). This text is automatically added when you edit a section.
16. N indicates a new page.
17. m indicates a minor edit
18. (top) signifies that the edit is the current revision. The page is as the user last saved it. This can be used to watch pages (if your last edit to the page does not display (top), the page has been changed).
19. If an editor has made more edits than will fit on one page, these links to the most recent edits (latest) and the oldest edits (earliest)
20. Similarly these links display the next or previous page of edits (newer n / older n).
21. The blue numbers list the number of edits displayed on a page: 20, 50, 100, 250 or 500. The number you select replaces n in the links to the previous or next pages e.g. (newer 100 / older 100). Views of up to 5000 edits per page are possible by modifying the URL.
22. This is not available in our version of MediaWiki.

Related

• Contribution score

External links

• See Wikipedia's article about the User contributions for a complete description of this topic.
• Help:User contributions