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 <slimvir...@gmail.com> > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l