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General discussion
Add number of editors in the topmost banner
I suggest this addition for the following reasons:
- It encourages people to become editors via argumentum ad populum.
- It is a interesting fact about the scale of Wikipedia
- It dispels reoccuring myth that only 100 or so admins edit Wikipedia
- It demonstrates the motto "anyone can edit".
I suggest formatting it like this:
Ca talk to me! 00:50, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- I strongly support this addition. Cremastra ‹ u — c › 00:34, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- "100 or so admins edit Wikipedia" factoid actualy just statistical error. average admin does not edit Wikipedia. Sockpuppets Georg, who lives in cave & passes RfA 10 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.But yes, this seems like a great idea! -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 01:24, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- I shall lend my support as I like this idea. It ties in well with the post on social media by the Wikimedia Foundation (earlier today, yesterday?) about "Wikipedia in numbers". Schwede66 09:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support - and maybe also add a edit count? Something like this might work: '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 09:59, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- I can't see any downside of adding the number of active editors, which is an impressive number given that the count is just for the last month. The number of edits seems a bit meaningless since it is a huge number that is hard to grasp and since what constitutes an edit is so variable. JMCHutchinson (talk) 09:02, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also support this. It's a minor but potentially quite impactful addition. J947 ‡ edits 09:08, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Good idea; I like the model that CanonNi proposes above. UndercoverClassicist T·C 17:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- I like Ca's suggestion of just including the number of editors. I'm not super keen on adding the number of edits as it is fairly meaningless to most casual visitors. Also, it will always be off because of caching (and I don't want us to get useless reports of "I made an edit but the number didn't go up!"). —Kusma (talk) 17:08, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Very good point, Kusma, about useless reports. Schwede66 18:08, 13 December 2024 (UTC)