This page is just a draft of what such a tool should have / look like. No plans exist yet to actually write it ;)

Background

Currently stewards and SWMT use a global contributions tool (, aka luxo's tool) to track IP addresses and users who are spamming/vandalizing cross-wiki. This tool should be put in an extension, which would make it faster and better supported. bugzilla:26957 is tracking this.

Requirements

• Work for both IP addresses and registered users (including non-global accounts)
• Run from any wiki - Special:GlobalContributions should work everywhere, like Special:CentralAuth
• Be fast and not kill the servers
• Shows all edits, not just recent ones (revision table - not recentchanges)
• Provide timestamp, page title + link, diff link, history link, edit summary, and whether the edit is still the current edit.
• Display local block info if a user is currently blocked
•  ???

Would be nice to have

• Ability to see deleted/suppressed edits, depending on access level (may be hard crosswiki)
  • If not, link to see deleted contribs
• View contributions of IP ranges

Random code thoughts

• For logged in users, we can optimize by only running the query where we know there are accounts that exist (CA's localnames table)
• Look into something like CentralAuthUser::queryAttached / CentralAuthUser::localUserData