On 22/03/2008, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/22/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
*Yes please*. Or something like it. The bogus number of users on Special:Statistics is widely quoted in the press even though almost all of them are spammer, vandal or troll accounts. "xx users with over 400 edits" would be ideal. Or over some number. Something meaningful.
Don't the Perl-generated site-wide statistics include all-time active users? Maybe the press could be pointed to those numbers?
I do point them to them, when they bother asking.
(Also, they could exercise some common sense with their usage of statistics).
This will never happen. The problem is them believing what [[Special:Statistics]] tells them.
- d.