Thread:Gen. Grievous1138/@comment-25258364-20140901002525/@comment-27723099-20140901193337

Wikia just provides features and the feature to count the edits is correct. It's just that it wouldn't be fair from Mevans to take this number for the "top five contributors".

But otherwise there is no perfect system to count how good someone contributes to the wiki. Every edit has a different value. If you copy text from the old wiki, you made many bytes but not much work. The work to reply to comments is also work, though not that important as the edits itself. Editing templates is more difficult than to write plain text. Probably the edit count is still the fairest possible way...