https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69844
Bug ID: 69844
Summary: Special:ActiveUsers - inflated number
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Special pages
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: dan...@yahoo.com
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Page [[Special:ActiveUsers]] (e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers) does not shows real number
of active users, but just an inflated number. Actually, it shows ALL users
which made at least ONE action within the last 30 days. What a wrong criterion
for statistics.
If the user has made an edit in 30 days that does not mean he is an ”active
user”!
A lot of users just correct some diacritics in pages, or just add a single
comma/dot and therefore with a single edit in 30 days they are shown in list of
Active Users. LOL. They are ”very active” ))
So, i suggest to change formula of calculations. List of active users must
include only users which made at least 5 (or maybe 10) edits in last 30 days.
This will be a more real number of users which really are active.
For wiktionaries and other smaller wikiprojects you can keep 1 action in 30
days as criterion.
If you do not want to implement this thing by default - you can add posibility
of changing criterion by users themselves via URL manipulation.
I.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ActiveUsers&edits=20
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