Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20170113210410/@comment-27514991-20170201004657

BertH wrote: Veralann wrote: I don't use discussions particularly often but I can honestly say it seems rather silly to keep the statistics visible only to moderators and administrators, when Special:Community already has nearly all the wiki equivalent functions tallied there. That's just me, though. As for the rest I don't have much to say because the wikis I moderate on don't use discussions (yet). The feedback from the Community Page is one reason why we decided to make this only visible to moderators and admins for now. Some of the moderators on active Discussions communities have noted (on this thread and elsewhere) that they think this is the right choice, to avoid users making posts for the sole purpose of getting to the top of the list. We would very much like to hear more details from those who would like to see the stats made fully public. How would this help your community and motivate good contribution? Which stats are the most beneficial to have public? My home wiki in particular (the LEGO Message Boards Wiki) is (or at least, was) a wiki where the primary editors (maybe 10 of us edited regularly) were particularly competitive in making the most quality edits each week. They used the Special:Community page to keep track of how many edits they were making. We encourage everyone to use Special:Forum but most don't, except to post in an occasional thread every once in a while. I believe that whenever discussions get enabled there that a public leaderboard would encourage users to use discussions more. Not to mention that the users there would likely be unhappy knowing that there is a leaderboard and that they wouldn't be able to see it. This is purely speculation on my part, however.