On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, zh509@york.ac.uk wrote:
Hi, everyone,
Thanks for reading.
I am a sociological research. I have used the dump of Wikipedia English enwiki-20100312-user_groups.sql for my research. I am confused by 'accountcreator' 'founder' and 'confirmed' meaning, would you please to introduce?
"Confirmed" users are ones that have been granted the autoconfirmed right explicitly.
"Accountcreator" was a special group greated for enwiki that bypasses the account creation limits so they can help other people make accounts for themselves.
"Founder" is a special right created for Jimmy Wales as founder of Wikipedia. The rights have been historically been similar (recently changed though) to that of a Steward.
As I know, users of wikipedia can change their status by becoming helper, admin or joining other groups. Since when, the user groups like this data showed, the date this date collected? How I am supposed to do if I want the data showing the change of user status?
You'd need to check the data from the logging table to see when user rights were changed on individual users.
-Chad