Or they can be people scared away by unfriendly welcome :) There are many reasons, and it's hard to guess. The best is still to have a range of criteria, and see where they differ. As far as I understand the trend remains the same in all evaluated criteria, although the steepness differs.
Lodewijk
2011/4/3 Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51, Isabell Long isabell121@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression
is
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts
compared
with the number of active accounts.
Yes, due to the sheer number of accounts that are created on various wikis through that, I think.
Has this been taken into account?
And another question following on from this one: how can it be taken into account?
It can be taken into account by not attributing significance to user names that make one edit then disappear -- because they're almost certainly not separate people deciding not to get involved with Wikipedia, but Wikipedians fiddling around (because of SUL, or with alternate accounts).
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