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Active users
Active users are defined as users who have made an action in the last 30 days.
It's "active users", not "active uses". "New users" wouldn't make sense as it would imply recently registered users. Nardog (talk) 01:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
No, it would imply new users of the script. Or new installations even. Active users implies users who have it installed and don't have it disabled (hence the need to override that implication with the aforementioned redefinition). Guarapiranga (talk) 01:07, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Ah, that at least clarifies where you're coming from, and I disagree. "Active users" here means "users who are active", not "people who use the script actively". Even if it were taken to mean "installations", "new" would imply recent installations, which is not what it is. Nardog (talk) 01:23, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Aha! My mistake. Upon rereading the definition, that makes perfect sense now.
Having said that, it'd be desirable to know how many users have each script enabled, wouldn't it? I guess that's more complicated than simply filtering for //. Guarapiranga (talk) 01:30, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, and suggested note for header
Thanks for this great set of stats, and details embedded in the list page!
Wondered why RefRenamer, which has ~30 users, doesn't show up here, and it looks like it's because it doesn't show up in the search SDZeroBot makes to get the initial list of .js pages, which "should cover every script that has at least 2 backlinks, and many others". I don't care whether my script is included per se, but I'm worried the report might not be accurate or up-to-date. Is incoming_links_desc simply lagging and it will catch up eventually, or is something broken? (cc SD0001) Nardog (talk) 10:46, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
@Headbomb @Nardog This could be because of a bug at some level in MediaWiki's search stack, as the script doesn't show up in the search result (which SDZeroBot uses as the base for this report) as well. I'd suggest filing a phab ticket. – SD0001 (talk) 07:27, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
Yes, the bot needs to make the search with srsort=incoming_links_desc to get the 5000 candidates for top scripts, to avoid having to analyse all the 88343 pages. The page doesn't show up with that parameter set, even though pages with significantly less links (like some users' monobook.js pages) do. – SD0001 (talk) 08:25, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
I'll give a couple examples, but it likely applies to much more. It still applies to Nardog's RefRenamer script, and I only noticed this issue because it affected my rmtr-helper script. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:34, 10 November 2023 (UTC)