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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


Version: 1.24rc
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 3:31 AM
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Timestamp and edit count filters seem easy enough to add.

What's about a single user writing four completely new articles for Wikipedia within 30 days, but doing nothing more than creating those four good, detailed, well-documented pages but not doing any more edits? Isn't creating those new articles being "active"? So this shouldn't be a hard rule, but as already mentioned we should add more filters to this special page instead.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:14 AM