On 12/4/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You need to register an account if you want to set
your preferences -
Wikipedia has more readers than writers, there are probably a number of
people who are familiar enough with the site to know this, but have no
interest in editing.
Do we have any numbers? Can we count the number of people in each of
these categories:
1) Never logged in
2) Logged in but never changed anything
3) Set preferences, but never edited
4) Edited, but not in main articlespace
5) Made at least one edit in main article space
To my mind, those in categories 1-3 should not be hogging valuable
user names if those in 5 want them. Exceptions of course for people
protecting established user names from other wikipedias, but they can
edit their own user page to solve that...
The other issue is one of authorship. We can't
re-use an account that has
made any edits, so what's the benefit in deleting accounts which haven't
been used in a while?
Reattributing edits is primarily a technical problem.
Steve