On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Marco Schuster <
marco(a)harddisk.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
Lars Aronsson schrieb:
Steve Bennett wrote:
This seems to me like a question worth finding
the answer to.
We're talking about potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of
users who wanted to edit, and couldn't figure out how to do it.
"Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, that every third person can edit."
Out of the 6.7 million registered user names on the English
Wikipedia, some 4.4 million had never completed a single edit.
IMO Wikipedia could
do the same as many boards do: purge accounts
after a time of inactivity.
I would go for 1year old accounts which have not done any edits, these
shouldn't be a problem. I would also kill accounts with no edits which
are blocked infinite, they are for no use anyway.
Incidentally, what would be the *benefit* of "killing" accounts that have