As the number of edits get higher, is it possible to shrink the text in the icon box somehow? Otherwise, theoretically, we could end up with this:

JPG-GR 00:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I think that would need quite a bit of logic (adding commas for every power of 1000) Are there any other templates that have this problem? How do they deal with it. Adam McCormick 00:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No clue whatsoever, and I figured as much. One of those puzzles that I love, but I am waaaaaaaaay too unfamiliar with wiki-code at this point to solve this one. JPG-GR 04:51, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the solution is to put them in yourself, So:

or for commas and returns:

You can put just about anything in the text box so <small></small> tags should work too:

Adam McCormick 16:46, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Erm... can we safely say that someone with that many edits NEEDS HELP, NOW? – Gurch 20:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No doubt. It's my debugger lifestyle. Gotta find solutions to those problems that theoretically won't happen. :) JPG-GR 04:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably gonna have to use exponents. So for 100000000000000000000000000, it's 10²⁶, which will produce:

V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 15:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• This still leaves us with the problem of, what if the exponent too becomes too wide?, e.g. 10^{1000000000000000}. Maybe a change of basis, or double exponentiation: 10¹⁰¹⁵ — Isilanes 15:49, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If the exponent is too wide, you ban the user, because any user making that many edits within the forseeable future is clearly a renegade bot causing financial problems for the Foundation through extreme overuse of bandwidth. We don't need to solve this problem for the same reason that computer systems don't always use 5 digits for the year section of a date - it isn't worthwhile for the next 7993 years. Nihiltres^(t.c.s) 19:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a table on the documentation page showing the colors that were used for each range in the original templates, in case users want to emulate these. --PhantomS 08:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has significantly changed the way the template works for color and I think it makes it much more difficult to use. I've corrected the default back to the colors it was and unless there's some good reasoning I'm going to revert the change. Adam McCormick 04:59, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: {{subst:User contrib meta|User 100e}} will produce just about the same appearance as {{User 100e}}, but it's programmed to use {{user contrib}}. I'm in favor of using a one time substitution, rather than keeping the 4 huge switch statements. Gracenotes^T § 19:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not, since users regularly update userboxes on their pages. I know I will. And I also know that I would not like to change the template back to a substed template every time. A bunch of huge switches will not waster server resources; my userpage has two of these templates on them, and one uses the set switch. V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 19:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Well, I guess that sounds fine, I should have never gotten into colors to begin with; just standardized it. Well, paint the bikeshed however you wish :) Gracenotes^T § 20:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Before this page goes much further into "mass-effect", I'd like to suggest a more specific rename to Template:User edit count. "contrib" is too vague for the usage, and could mean any number of things. - jc37 17:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer contrib because it's easy to remember and shorter to type. Either way I think this page needs to at least be a redirect. There is also some debate as to whether talk page contributions count as "edits" or just contributions Adam McCormick 18:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you point me to that debate? I think that the fact that we click on a tab labelled "edit this page" makes such a debate moot? : ) - jc37 19:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]