Duly noted

No, constructive edits on articles count towards contributions. In fact, constructive edits are preferred over image additions.

Too bad I didn't know that a year ago, or I would have been able to make a userpage already. I've been letting others do edits for me. Then again, I don't know that much about wiki editing, and since I'm still learning, it'll take a while before I can add in information myself.