On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51, Isabell Long <isabell...@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). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l