On 3/8/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
Or one could get a little nasty, and publish
ratios of user page editing
vs article space editing, give out a "Most Useless Wikipedian" award to
the person at the top of the list.
Yeah, but not every article-space edit is good, and not every
user-space edit is bad. Lately I've been making a lot of edits to my
user page, but that's because I use it to keep track of articles I've
created and photos I've uploaded. (Yes, most people would use a
watchlist for that...;))
Some of the userbox habitues have ratios of 50x(!) or more edits to user
pages vs article space edits. It's kind of disconcerting to select just
the main space in user contributions, and find the long contribution
list drop to just a couple dozen edits *total*.
This was one of the dismaying realizations back in the first round of
userbox wars, that there was a subculture for whom having the WP login
was an end in itself. We've ended up tolerating it as not being worth
the trouble of trying to discourage officially.
Stan