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<p dir="auto">Well sure the data is available (which is all the API being able to fetch it proved) but we put limits on that API call - we don't just allow people to fetch a user's entire edit history because of the cost of doing that.</p>
<p dir="auto">Talking about the API is irrelevant anyway because the server code doesn't use the API or parse XML to do things like this, it just executes <code class="notranslate">current_user.changesets.sum(:num_changes)</code> but that will turn into something like:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-sql" dir="auto"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-k">SELECT</span> <span class="pl-c1">SUM</span>(<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>changesets<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>.<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>num_changes<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>) <span class="pl-k">FROM</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>changesets<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span> <span class="pl-k">WHERE</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>changesets<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>.<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>user_id<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span> <span class="pl-k">=</span> $<span class="pl-c1">1</span></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">which forces the database to read all the changeset records for the user.</p>
<p dir="auto">I doubt the edit link uses that API call either - why would iD care about your previous changesets?</p>

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