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

Sun Apr 3 18:51:03 UTC 2011

Or they can be people scared away by unfriendly welcome :) There are many
reasons, and it's hard to guess. The best is still to have a range of
criteria, and see where they differ. As far as I understand the trend
remains the same in all evaluated criteria, although the steepness differs.

Lodewijk

2011/4/3 Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com>

> 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).
>
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