Early experience browsing Wiki in 1996 shows that the frequent signing of contributions leads to an unnatural connectivity of concepts simply because some people offer signed comments on a wide variety of topics.
We've scraped the frozen historic copy of wiki.c2.com to retrieve page names prefixed with "--". This is made available as counted lines in a text file. text 
# Find all user page names from wiki/c2.com # Usage: sh allUserNames.sh ls pages | while read page; do cat pages/$page |\ jq -r '.text' |\ perl -ne ' print "$1\n" if /\-\- (([A-Z][a-z]+){2,})\b/' done | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Here we cross this list with the page names present in the archive.org 1996 scrape. github
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/wiki-in-1996/all-people.html HEIGHT 400
This will be made available to our random-aspects.html script where it will be optionally applied to improve heuristics. text
We select by hand names to remove from this list non-people sited as a reference and published authors not likely to be editing in wiki.
AlanKay VisualWorks WikiWiki DouglasHofstadter ChryslerComprehensiveCompensation MoreAboutMechanics CrossingChasms MoreAboutContents MoreAboutTheDatabase WikiName AnalysisPatterns DonKnuth CategoryHomePage CommonGatewayInterface UseCase CategoryCategory TrygveReenskaug GradyBooch SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns WitoldRybczynski DougEngelbart SmalltalkGraphicsFramework WikiWikiWeb TipsForBeginners GemStone TedNelson TrainTheTrainer ChristopherAlexander WelcomeVisitors
We consider a name to be the signature of a participant if the named page is written in the first person. Consider GradyBooch who might have written in wiki but appears in the third person. wiki