Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nomination data
This subpage is the focal point for gathering of data relevant to requests for adminship. Information that is culled from this data has been posted to Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship and is frequently found to be useful in support of various discussions regarding requests for adminship.
Data currently maintained
[edit]- All RfA nominations : Results for every nomination posted to RfA from the inception of RfA in June of 2003 through near current.
- All RfB nominations : Results of every bureaucrat nomination posted to RfB.
- User:WereSpielChequers/RFA by month : A table of RfA results by month, focusing on activity levels
- Wikipedia:RFA study : A table of each RfA, focusing on properties of the candidates like edit count and tenure — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enterprisey (talk • contribs) 23:54, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
Requests for data analysis
[edit]Anyone is free to conduct their own analysis of the data presented here in these subpages. All of the text here is available under terms of GFDL and there are no restrictions on the use of the data. If you feel others might be more qualified to conduct an analysis of data, you may request an analysis in the section below.
Current requests
[edit]Please be as specific as you can regarding the information, chart, or graph you would like to have done for you.
- Possibly not under the remit here, but I would be interested in any way of capturing admin drop-out, or fall off in activity. We concentrate endlessly on the process of becoming an admin, but I've seen very little discussion of the large number of admins who cease to be very active. How long do they last? Are they the more, or less experienced ones on promotion? No idea what data are easily available, so not sure what to ask for specifically. Johnbod (talk) 03:27, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Past requests and their results
[edit]- There is a current thread on WT:RFA about the total support vs. the total oppose votes cast on current RfAs. Can we graph the Support/Oppose vote ratio on all current RfAs over time? To see if there is a trend showing periods of high opposition levels. Perhaps excluding RfAs that are removed within 24 hours to eliminate a bias due to snowball RfAs. NoSeptember 15:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Here's the graph:
--Durin 21:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Some sample charts and graphs
[edit]August 2006 WP:RFA in Review
[edit]| August 2006 RfA in Review | This month | Last month | Feb-Jul |
|---|---|---|---|
| New RfAs posted: | 72 | 78 | 459 |
| Successful RfAs: | 27 (38%) | 26 (33%) | 183 (40%) |
| Early withdrawn RfAs: | 29 (40%) | 38 (49%) | 191 (42%) |
| Self nominations: | 38 (53%) | 39 (50%) | 216 (47%) |
| Noms with <1000 edits: | 17 (24%) | 19 (24%) | 99 (22%) |
| Average number of votes per successful RfA: | 76 | 97 | 86 |
| Average number of votes per unsuccessful RfA:1 | 62 | 79 | 71 |
| Success rates based on edit count of all nominees with at least... | |||
| All RfAs | 38% | 33% | 40% |
| >1000 edits | 49% | 44% | 51% |
| >2000 edits | 55% | 48% | 57% |
| >3000 edits | 61% | 53% | 62% |
| >4000 edits | 67% | 49% | 61% |
| >5000 edits | 67% | 50% | 61% |
| Success rates based on time on Wikipedia of all nominees with at least... | |||
| >2 months | 41% | 35% | 43% |
| >4 months | 47% | 38% | 46% |
| >6 months | 53% | 42% | 49% |
| Average edit count of successful noms: | 7499 | 6776 | 6222 |
| Average edit count of unsuccessful noms: | 3888 | 3262 | 3052 |
- 1 - Unsuccessful nominations only includes those nominations that were not withdrawn early and were not successful. This is the smallest subset of RfAs, typically comprising less than 20% of all RfAs.
Monthly promotions
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Number of RfAs per week
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Average edit count per RfA for 2006
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