Thread:User talk:Nx/"RW's millionth edit" back in 2009/reply (3)

Interesting. Special:Statistics was reset at least once in the past, which means the values were recalculated from various other pieces of information, e.g. the edit count was probably calculated from the rev id (I'd need to check the code to answer that with certainty, but it makes sense). I dunno why it was inflated, but in any case, you'll know for sure when we reach the millionth edit because the revid is unique for every edit. In fact, here's a magical space-time bending link to the one millionth edit: