Daniel Mayer wrote:
What would be most useful is a listing of new users that can be accessed from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers. That way this job would be much easier.
At one time thes were in order of joining (which can be useless in its own way). Can some kind of a sort function be applied.
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)?
Can there be a "Wikepedia reserve army" list where anybody that hasn't been seen in 90 days is listed. To get back on the main list, one simple log-in would do the trick. I would not object to seeing a lot of "accidental" registrations cancelled completely; many of these people have probably even forgotten that Wikipedia exists. They can always re-register if they want.
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