David Gerard wrote:
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.
Some sort of statistic that gives the number of active accounts would be ideal, say any account that has made an edit in the past week. Not sure how computationally expensive that would be though. For a large site like enwiki, it would probably have to be cached and updated on a regular basis.