Wikiversity talk:Participants

Archive of discussion up to March 2008

Reconceptualisation of March 2008
In March 2008, I erased the previous "content" (such as it was) and started afresh with a new concept. Hopefully this concept will be useful, at least for an interim period until (hopefully) one day Wikiversity is so busy that it is hopeless keeping track of personalia. --McCormack 11:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I moved this part of the discussion to the bottom of the page, as it is common in other discussions (i.e. new discussion entries at the bottom of the page). Small question: What is that * mark near some names? --Gbaor 12:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I moved the previous discussion to an archive. We don't want people starting to read at the top of the page and thinking that had anything to do with the current page ;-) --McCormack 12:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The star means "new in the list this month". I've added some explanation. --McCormack 12:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Way to take a useless page and turn it into something somewhat useful. I'm impressed.  The Jade Knight 11:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Keeping the very active participants list up-to-date
I believe it is possible to get hold of database dumps which list participants in order of edits - see e.g. w:Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits, but I haven't found out how to do this yet. There are some pages which give the number of active editors, but not their names. So I'm proposing that keeping this page up-to-date should be a manual exercise for the time being. Anyone can add people to the most recent month as time goes by, as names crop up on "recent changes", and it might be nice to have the list more or less complete at the end of the month. A problem with wiki projects is contributor-retention, and identifying new active users would be a crucial pre-condition for encouraging, involving and retaining them in the long term. --McCormack 13:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

which namespace
100 contributions to become a very active contributor - meant for the main namespace or also ''discussions, templates. categories, etc.''? --Gbaor 13:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Personally, I look at everything. But then I discount people who are only very temporarily here, plus vandals and trolls. --McCormack 04:55, 9 August 2008 (UTC)