On 03/07/2013 10:24 AM, Steven Walling wrot
It's really just wrong to call the number generated by Special:Statistics "active editors", since the threshold is one action (action, not edit) in the last month. I would ignore it.
Special:Statistics actually says "active users", not "active editors", and that's how it should be interpreted.
The Special:Statistics one is a much broader superset.
Matt