Vladimir_Nesov comments on How to incentivize LW wiki edits? - Less Wrong
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As a related attention-focusing change, remove user registration notifications from (the default form of) the "Recent changes" page.
I suspect that this is hard coded actually, as each wiki account has a userpage (User:[username]), which is itself wiki-editable.
If so, not a particularly serious issue, as MediaWiki is GPL2ed (not sure what is the relevance of your remark that each wiki account has a userpage; userpages are not created automatically on registration, at least in the LW wiki configuration).
I meant that if a userpage was automatically created (I was under the impression that they were, based on this user list and my experience on Wikipedia - feel free to correct me), then it would count as a recent "change" and show up in the recent changes list.
I don't think they are. I rarely have to delete user pages because most spammers never create a user page. The items in the sidebar with my name seem to refer to me blocking the user accounts.