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Please add 'last edit' column to xtools articleinfo table
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Please add a 'last edited' column to the xtools utility "articleinfo", in order to help determine which users are good candidates to be pinged to a discussion at the article's Talk page. Pinging editors who haven't edited in a year is a waste of time, but clicking through the users to find that info currently takes a lot of clicks with a low success rate.

A new date column in the tables in the Top editors section containing the date of the editor's last contribution to Wikipedia would make this a lot easier.

Even better: a font-height sparkline showing their contribution pattern of the last 6 months or so, if any, plus last-edit date. Knowing they edited once ten days ago is good; knowing that it was part of a steady pattern, rather than their first time back in a year is better. (If a sparkline is too hard, then last edit, plus sthg like, "mean time between edits in last 6 months" or similar.) But even just last edit would be a big improvement.

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MusikAnimal subscribed.

I think it's a clever idea! Showing the last date they edited seems feasible and shouldn't be terribly inefficient if we're only talking about the "top editors". I can't promise anything though without first running some tests.

The sparkline (now I finally know what that's called!) would be really neat but most certainly slow down the tool too much, I'm afraid.

Yes, I meant only the top ten, or however many in those "top" listings by edit count, or byte count.

As far as sparklines, I was hoping maybe a once-a-week batch job could generate them; there's absolutely no need to have it in real time, and as you pointed out, it would be prohibitive.

MusikAnimal changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".