I just wondered why about 800 users had registered in the last few
months (and only about 10% have contributed up to now).
So 90% of them have registered without necessity.
I've wondered the same thing. If you browse the new user list, you can
see if the user has made any contributions... and the number of blue
Contribution links in that new user list is very small... I'd even guess
it's less than 10%.
I see a similar pattern in the Documentation project... lots of
membership requests, and then nothing ever again from that person. The
User forum also sees similar (although not as high of a ratio of zero
contributions).
In some cases the people registering think they need an account to view
the info... in other cases they somehow manage to register without
realizing they registered - I've received several very confused sounding
private emails about new Wiki user accounts.
I imagine a significant number of the inactive accounts were created,
but never email validated - mistyped email addresses, invalid/fake email
addresses supplied etc. This is something I brought up in the past, and
proposed that we set up a "time-out" for inactive accounts, and have
them removed after a fixed period of zero edits/no email validation. The
general consensus at the time was leave it as is, and do not remove
inactive accounts.
C.
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StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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