Per Bartosz, it turns out the specific issue was https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth/+/1176310, which made the globaluserinfo API report edit counts that match the "Total edit count" shown on the special page, instead of the "Sum of local edit counts"

I have been experiencing this issue since yesterday. I changed my username a few years ago and make hundreds of edits a month.

I'm experiencing the same situation as mrephabricator, I was too renamed years ago and now I have -20000 recent edits...

I'm sorry that happened to you. Since the updates to the edit counts happened on September 1, recent edits are counted over 30 days, and it is now September 28, this will probably resolve itself in 2 days (give or take a few hours, I don't know how often The Wikipedia Library updates its data).

If you'd like to have your access restored sooner, please try emailing wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org or the other contact methods listed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library (and reference this bug report). I don't have the ability to restore it myself, and I think @Samwalton9-WMF might be out of office for a few days, but someone else will probably be able to help you.

I created T405989 before seeing this sorry - same boat: I renamed my account a while ago and it's showing my recent edit count as -3000 or so

I'd been experiencing this for a few days and only just had the time to look into it properly and file a bug report.

-1879

'It may not be worth us doing anything in the meantime.'

Nice!

Just realised this when logged in to The Wikipedia Library (as VulcanSphere as with Wikimedia SUL account)

My recent edit count negative count was huge, -51223

Amateur :) I'll see you for -100,300 !!

Yeah it's completely bizarre.

Now that it is October my edit count seems to be fixed. Seems that's not true for everyone?

In T404708#11234313, @jrbs wrote:

Now that it is October my edit count seems to be fixed. Seems that's not true for everyone?

Unfortunately not...

Unfortunately the issue has remained exactly the same, -21972 edits.
At this point, since it seems that it won't be solved soon, I'm going to email Wikimedia Library asking if they can activate manual exemptions...

In T404708#11234313, @jrbs wrote:

Now that it is October my edit count seems to be fixed. Seems that's not true for everyone?

Just checked again, and not yet, still minus edit count

EDIT: Ignore this comment, access is already restored

Now the edit count is positive: 797

But I'm still ineligible for the access, now will wait until tomorrow before requesting manual exemptions

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For me the problem today seems to have been solved.

Not for me, although edit count’s gone from ~-5000 to ~+500

Hi folks - apologies for the delay in responding here, I was out for a few days. I'm glad to hear that this issue has resolved for some of you, though I'm not totally sure right now why it isn't for others. If you're currently unable to log in due to the recent activity criterion please try logging out and back in. If the issue persists please upload a screenshot of the error page and your user page in the library (showing your recent activity numbers) to help us diagnose the issue.

This is now fixed for me also.

Still getting bunked out of accessing ACM publications

(Seems fine for me now)

Now works for me also, thanks guys