mav wrote:
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)?
The vast majority (over three quarters) of people who have logged in have never made any edits whatsoever, quite apart from not having a user page. I suspect that the majority are just passers by who click on log in out of curiosity. It might be a good idea do a clearout of all of these that are older than a couple of months and have never made any contributions, to free up the user names.
Out of interest, I produced some stats for the users we have and the number of contributions since February. These show that about 800 logged in users have made at least one contribution, and about 400 have made at least 10 contributions. 95% of edits (again counting logged in users only) have been made by only around 200 Wikipedians. The Wikipedia community is still quite a small corner of the Internet!
Tim (Enchanter)
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--- Tim Marklew tmarklew@hotmail.com wrote:
95% of edits (again counting logged in users only) have been made by only around 200 Wikipedians. The Wikipedia community is still quite a small corner of the Internet!
What a hoot! That puts a different spin on the stat "3509 registered users, 37 of whom are administrators". Here I thought 37/3509 = about one percent of us were administrators, when in fact 37/200 = about one fifth of us are.
My mother once told me the story of a certain undergraduate educational institution which surveyed the incoming freshmen, and asked each, among other things, whether s/he was "more of a leader" or "more of a follower". The results were compiled: the class consisted of exactly one follower and the rest leaders!
Following dilligently, -Karl
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|From: Karl Juhnke yangfuli@yahoo.com |Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:08:49 -0700 (PDT) | |--- Tim Marklew tmarklew@hotmail.com wrote: |> 95% of edits (again counting logged in users only) have been |> made by only around 200 Wikipedians. The Wikipedia community is |> still quite a small corner of the Internet! | |What a hoot! That puts a different spin on the stat "3509 registered |users, 37 of whom are administrators". Here I thought 37/3509 = about |one percent of us were administrators, when in fact 37/200 = about one |fifth of us are. | |My mother once told me the story of a certain undergraduate educational |institution which surveyed the incoming freshmen, and asked each, among |other things, whether s/he was "more of a leader" or "more of a |follower". The results were compiled: the class consisted of exactly |one follower and the rest leaders! | |Following dilligently, |-Karl |
I *knew* I didn't want admin privileges. Better to keep my street cred.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
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