[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: note to the militia

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>What would be most useful is a listing of new users that can be accessed from 
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers. That way this job would be 
>much easier. 
>
At one time thes were in order of joining (which can be useless in its 
own way).  Can some kind of a sort function be applied.

>BTW we really /do not/ have 3498 real users -- a good many of these "users" 
>logged in only to abuse our upload utility or for other nefarious or 
>non-contributing reasons (I don't greet any user who hasn't contributed at 
>all). Is there a way to get rid of many of these no-longer used user accounts 
>Lee (just the ones that have been inactive for months and whose user pages 
>are still edit links)? 
>
Can there be a "Wikepedia reserve army" list where anybody that hasn't 
been seen in 90 days is listed.  To get back on the main list, one 
simple log-in would do the trick.  I would not object to seeing a lot of 
"accidental" registrations cancelled completely; many of these people 
have probably even forgotten that Wikipedia exists.  They can always 
re-register if they want.

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