Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5056929-20121202212603/@comment-4795804-20130101161518

What is the User of the Month about?

When I have seen any similar event like this anywhere, it has always been about the activity in the current month or about the activity in the previous month.


 * If the User of the Month was about the activity in the current month, then it wouldn't probably have any purpose to vote on the first day of the month, when no user has done almost anything yet.
 * Also, when I look on the User of the Month page, I can see people nominated because they have done thousands of contributions on the wiki since they joined it, but there is nothing either about the currect month or about the previous month in the nomination descriptions.
 * And the last point, this event should encourage people to be helpful on this wiki, however I don't see any purpose in admins being nominated. Admins should care of the wiki simply because the are admins. If the event continued like this, then the first months of the User of the Month event would be wasted every year, because only admins would probably appear on the list.