On 01/04/2008, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
The best solution would be to add a more useful number, aka the number of "active" accounts. That means we have to define what an "active user" is, and add a way to track the number in a way that stays relatively accurate and doesn't harm site performance.
Erik Zachte's wikistats gives two numbers: >5 edits in the past month and >100 edits in the past month.
Off the top of my head: I suppose the count could be all usernames with >100 edits. This can be approximated, e.g. not fixing it if a username goes from 101 edits to 99 edits (or 0 edits) by page deletion. Just a ticker going up.
- d.