To help everybody on these two lists (wikitech-l, wikipedia-l) to voluntarily moderate themselves and to chose their fights, here are some statistics. Note that these numbers do not indicate the usefulness of each message, just their numbers. I'm not the moderator, and there is no rule for how much anybody is allowed to post.
During October, 349 messages were sent to wikipedia-l by 70 different posters. The following were the most active posters:
Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 30 node.ue 22 2.718281828 18 nsk2 18 anthere9 17 rowan.collins 15 saintonge 15 ropers 14 jwales 12 stirling.newberry 10 david 10 andrew.lih ----- -----------------------------
During September, 741 messages were sent to wikipedia-l by 98 different posters. The following were the most active posters:
Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 91 node.ue 44 anthere9 42 saintonge 40 ropers 35 jwales 25 delirium 23 yann 23 stirling.newberry 19 maveric149 18 gerardm 18 fredbaud 18 chris_mahan 18 andrew.lih 16 yuanml 16 2.718281828 13 share2002nov 12 ts4294967296 12 modean52 10 craig 10 beesley ----- -----------------------------
During October, 560 messages were sent to wikitech-l by 120 different posters. The following were the most active posters:
Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 55 nsk2 50 brion 35 rowan.collins 31 ropers 23 hashar 20 magnus.manske 17 ts4294967296 15 mail(-at-)tgries.de 12 danenberg 11 tomk32 11 gerardm 10 timwi 10 emmanuel ----- -----------------------------
During September, 663 messages were sent to wikitech-l by 108 different posters. The following were the most active posters:
Posts Sender address ----- ----------------------------- 65 brion 53 timwi 38 thoane 29 rowan.collins 29 gerardm 22 kissall 22 erik_moeller 19 JeLuF 18 anthere9 17 mail 14 jwales 13 puglisi 13 brion 13 avarab 12 saintonge 12 ropers 11 magnus.manske 11 delirium 10 wmahan_04 ----- -----------------------------
The sum over two lists and two months are:
Posts Sender address ----- ----------------------------- 127 brion 121 node.ue 98 ropers 90 rowan.collins 88 anthere9 76 saintonge 73 nsk2 69 timwi 69 jwales 65 gerardm ----- -----------------------------