[arch-general] Drop in the number of ArchWiki registered users

[Dario Giovannetti]

On 01/02/14 14:04, Dario Giovannetti wrote:
> On 01/02/14 13:13, Daniel Micay wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Dario Giovannetti <dariogiova at gmail.com  <https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote:
>> >/  I keep track of some ArchWiki statistics in [1] and I've just realized that
>> />/  in the last month we've had a 6000+ drop in the number of registered users,
>> />/  which is a number that should instead only increase, as we don't have tools
>> />/  for (mass) deleting accounts. Anybody knows what happened?
>> />/  In the month of January, 3 commits have been made to [2], two of which are
>> />/  updates to MediaWiki: maybe one of them caused the issue?
>> />/
>> />/  [1]
>> />/  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:Maintenance_Team#Statistics
>> />/  [2]https://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/wiki.archlinux.org.git/
>> />/
>> />/  --
>> />/  Dario (Kynikos)
>> /
>> Strange... do you know if any of these accounts belong to someone who
>> has made contributions? I haven't seen anyone report that they were
>> having issues logging in yet...
> I have no idea whether those accounts had some particular properties, 
> like having 0 contributions and being older than a particular date... 
> I've checked in the upstream changelogs and haven't found anything 
> related. In any case it would be really weird if it was a systematic 
> account clean-up from upstream.
> What is sure is that [3] now lists only the new number of users 
> (~14800, before we had ~21000), and among them there are still users 
> with 0 contributions, e.g. [4]. The total number of edits hasn't 
> dropped, so no revisions should have been lost.
> Maybe it would be worth it if whoever has access to the ArchWiki 
> database backups compared the recent ones with the current database.
>
> [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers
> [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/00001000
Forgot to mention that the user in [4] registered in 2010 [5].

[5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Log/00001000