Manual:$wgHideUserContribLimit/en

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<translate> User rights, access control and monitoring</translate>: $wgHideUserContribLimit
The maximum number of edits a user can have and can still be hidden by users with the hideuser permission.
<translate> Introduced in version:</translate>1.23.0 (Gerrit change 98267; git #8616f1b9)
<translate> Removed in version:</translate><translate> still in use</translate>
<translate> Allowed values:</translate>(integer) or false
<translate> Default value:</translate>1000

Details

A limit for performance reasons, to prevent a user with the hideuser user right from hiding a user with too many edits.

The limit can be disabled by setting to false.

To determine this, the database field user_editcount is used. See that page for more information.