[Foundation-l] Fwd: A lack of newbies that stick

[Sarah]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51, Isabell Long <isabell121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
>> We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
>> that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
>> with the number of active accounts.
>
> Yes, due to the sheer number of accounts that are created on various
> wikis through that, I think.
>
>> Has this been taken into account?
>
> And another question following on from this one: how can it be taken
> into account?

It can be taken into account by not attributing significance to user
names that make one edit then disappear -- because they're almost
certainly not separate people deciding not to get involved with
Wikipedia, but Wikipedians fiddling around (because of SUL, or with
alternate accounts).