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The "striking" drop-off for Perl can be explained by the gitpan: http://github.com/gitpan

There are also similar statistics skewing users, like the emacsmirror: http://github.com/emacsmirror

It'd be nice if GitHub had a way to exclude such users from their statistics.




I was told that Gitpan is not included in the stats.




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