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

[Daniel Micay]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Dario Giovannetti <dariogiova at gmail.com> 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...