Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Additional Options on User Pages

When you’re viewing a user page or user talk page, you’ll see three more links in the middle of the toolbox.

User Contributions

Shows all edits by the editor whose user or user talk page you’re looking at. Page 100 shows what the report looks like. This report lets you check for unreverted vandalism or spam by someone who just vandalized or spammed an article. It also help you get a more general sense of whether an editor is doing constructive edits or not.

Chapter 7 discusses a “revert, review, report or warn” process for vandalism; this report is one of the major parts of the review step. It also has a link to a page that shows whether the editor has been previously blocked.

Logs

Shows a combined display of a number of different logs: upload, patrol, page move, user creation, deletion, protection, user block, user renaming, and user rights. (The last five are logs of actions that normal editors can’t do.)

You can narrow the list of edits in three ways:

• By selecting a log type

• By selecting the user name for a user of interest

• By selecting a page name (“Article”, or “User talk:Username”, for example)

Normal edits aren’t in any of those logs; for those, see the Recent changes special page (filterable by namespace), or use the User contributions special page, or use a page history.

E-mail This User

If an editor has enabled email from other users (Figure 20-3, page 385) and you have a confirmed email address (page 52), then you can email that editor. Details on ...