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This project is divided into sub pages in order to keep discussions focused and on track.
Read the main page first, then join a discussion on the respective page.
Please do not start a new thread or a new sub page on something that is already under discussion - see the TOC on each talk page.

This page: is in five parts:

  • Part 1 is a table showing each editor's stats at the time of their RfA
  • Part 2 is a detailed breakdown and analysis of the criteria on which users base their !votes. The information is drawn from users' essays.
  • Part 3 is a statistical summary extrapolated by Worm That Turned from the data he researched.
  • Part 4 is a table of stats of candidates who were not successful in 2011.
  • Part 5 is a comparison table of how RfA is conducted on the English, French, German, and Italian Wikipedias.

Part 1. Data of successful candidates 2009 - 2011

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Research and data by courtesy of Worm That Turned

These tables show for each candidate at the time of RfA:

  • Tenure in months (length of membership at Wikipedia)
  • Consecutive active months
  • Edit count
  • Automated edits as a percentage
  • Approximate number of manual edits.
Year Tenure (months) Consecutive active months Edit count Automated Edit % Approx Manual
Averages
2012 (to 10 May) 57 22 22388
2011 42 13 25181 20.79346 18080.58
2010 37.48611 15.40278 24356.04 12.43609 17277.98
2009 30.73554 13.1157 16777.98 11.0825 13793.78
Medians
2012 (to 10 May) 55 15 13780
2011 41 11 18301 14.235 15000
2010 38 11 15797.5 7.87 13590.23
2009 29 11 11249 6.225 9509.19

Part 2. Users' criteria for adminship

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Research and data by courtesy of Worm That Turned

Analysis of RfA criteria drawn from user essays.
Note: Some are out of date, some are by banned users.

User essays

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Metrics drawn from all essays

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Stats

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Edit count:

Total Numbers - 59
Mean - 2840.67797
Median - 2500
Mode - 2000,3000

Tenure (months):

Total Numbers - 57
Mean - 6.59649
Median - 6
Mode - 6

Metrics from the vetted numerical criteria essays

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Summaries

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Edit counts

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Overall
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23 out of 28 editors had a minimum number of edits they would like to see.

Minimum number of edits Number of editors who suggested this.
1000 1
2000 5
3000 5
3500 2
4000 1
5000 5
6000 4
Space specific
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There were 24 suggestions on space minimums, majority about the mainspace. (Around 12 of 28 mentioed some form of space minimum)

Relevant space Minimum number of edits Number of editors who suggested this.
Mainspace 500 1
Mainspace 700 1
Mainspace 1000 6
Mainspace 2500 1
Mainspace 3000 2
Mainspace 5000 1
Article Talk 100 1
Wikipedia 300 2
Wikipedia 500 3
Wikipedia 1000 1
Wikipedia Talk 20 1
Wikipedia Talk 500 1
Template 100 1
Media wiki talk 100 1
File 10 1
Edit Summaries
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13 out of 28 editors mentioned edit summary usage. 5 did not give an accurate number and the rest are shown below.

Minimum edit summary percentage Number of editors who suggested this.
70% 1
80% 1
90% 1
99% 1
100% 4
Manual
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4 editors suggested a minimum number of manual edits. 2 did not specify what the minimum should be

  • 2500 manual edits
  • 10000 manual edits
Activity
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4 editors suggested minimum activity levels.

  • 1 edit per month
  • 100 epm for 2 years
  • 150 epm for 6 months
  • 150 epm for 12 months

Time served

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Overall
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25 of 28 editors gave an opinion on tenure/minimum period of active editing

Minimum length of active tenure Number of editors who suggested this.
3 months 2
4 months 1
6 months 9
8 months 3
9 months 2
12 months 5
18 months 1
24 months 2
Time without a block
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19 of 28 editors gave an opinion on time since last block

Minimum time without a block Number of editors who suggested this.
Clean block log only 10
6 months 3
8 months 2
9 months 1
12 months 2
24 months 1

Other

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  • Maintenance
    • Regular AIV, UAA, RFPP & AFD x12
    • Good CSD tagging x7
    • Good Wikipedia space work
    • Participated in ANEW, ANI or AN x2
    • Having rollback x8
    • Vandal fighter x7
  • Civility
    • Civility x12
    • Good communication x2
  • Article work
    • Article work x7
    • Good BLP work x2
    • Super-majority of edits in mainspace and article talk x2
  • Knowledge
    • Well versed in policy x10
    • Know the difference between block and ban
    • Well versed in templates
  • Community and teamwork
    • Good Userpage x2
    • Active in at least 1 wikiproject x5
    • Barnstars
    • Appropriate username & sig
    • Email enabled
    • Appropriate archiving on usertalk
  • Other
    • Mature x4
    • Not too much Drama x2
    • Not admin coached x2
    • Not bitey x2
    • WP:AOR x2
    • Gnoming work x2
    • Regular edit history
    • Patroller
    • Avoids COI
    • specifically needs the tools
    • Auto patroller
    • Good BLP work
    • Help newbies
    • Participates in RfA
    • Clerking work
    • Admin coached

Part 3. Summary

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Facts drawn from the above data:

  • The edit count of new admins has increased year on year. From a midpoint of ~11,000 to ~19,000.
  • Only one person since 2009 has gained adminship with less than 3,000 edits (He had over 1 million edits across wikis)
  • Editors who passed with less than 10,000 edits - 2009: 44 (36%), 2010: 20 (26%), 2011: 5 (18% so far)
  • The overall user criteria averages bear out as aiming for a minimum of a Journeyman editor - 2,000 edits plus 6 months experience
  • The more recent (vetted) criteria bears out as aiming for a minimum of 3,700 edits plus 9 months experience. (Closer to a Yeoman Editor but not quite)
  • Besides edit count and length of membership, the next largest concern is the blocklog - with half of those concerned wanting to see a clean block log or an average of 10 months clear.
  • After the blocking issue, edits to specific areas (generally mainspace), civility, policy knowledge, and edit summaries were equally important in the criteria stakes. The rest were a bit all over the place.

Part 4. Unsuccessful candidates in 2011

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This table is also shown on the Unsuccessful RfAs page along with additional data on failed candidates.

(Research and data by courtesy of Kudpung)

  • There are no averages or mean for edits as they would provide a false picture.
  • 2nd or subsequent attempts are generally not listed because these users would hardly be beginners.
  • NA = Some RfA were closed before the X-tools data could be posted (NA); in this case the current data is provided, and some candidates were not opted in for X!-tools.
  • Most of the withdrawals or 'no consensus' were regular experienced editors.
  • Months are the full consecutive months of activity since a Wikibreak of over 30 days.
  • NAC: Non admin closure
  • NNEng: Non native English speaker
  • VYU: Very young user (where age is known - generally under 15)
  • UP: User page edits
Candidate Date Month Year Result Months Edits Article Ed. UP Ed.% Score Comments
RobertMfromLI 13 Aug 2011 Withdrawn 5 4,401 801 8% 17/15/3 NAC
CWH 25 July 2011 SNOW 72 2,689 2,064 10.15% 2/10/3 11 edits to Wikipedia space. First edit 2005.
N5iln 24 July 2011 No consensus 24 28,776 12,471 1% 50/26/7 Extended 48 hours: +2 supports on day 8, +1 supports on day 9, +2 opposes on day 9
GSorby 11 July 2011 Withdrawn 18 3,858 1,487 6.4% 1/8/0 3rd attempt
TedPavlic 11 July 2011 SNOW 13 3,274 2,573 1.7% 6/12/2 183 edits in preceding 6 months
Timl2k4 10 July 2011 SNOW 11 1,669 785 7.5% 4/9/2 NAC
E2eamon 8 July 2011 Withdrawn 20 10,043 4,121 2.4% 30/19/3
Dudemanfellabra 5 July 2011 Withdrawn 41 13,831 4,743 5.4% 11/21/10
methecooldude 1 July 2011 Withdrawn 10 3,124 1,261 4.3% 0/3/0
Wikiman1717 16 June 2011 SNOW 1 100 28 0% 0/0/0 Blocked sockpuppet
Snakenath 7 June 2011 SNOW 1 33 20 6% 0/2/0 NAC
Jsfouche 6 June 2011 No consensus 8 8,497 3,031 2.6% 45/26/6
Ttonyb1 6 June 2011 Withdrawn 35 82,183 20,357 1% 15/5/9
ke5crz 3 June 2011 SNOW 72 1,212 634 0.5% 1/4/2 Joined 2005
Ebikeguy 29 May 2011 Withdrawn 21 2,080 749 4.8% 6/14/9
Moxy 28 May 2011 Withdrawn 24 48,041 22,263 1.9% 5/6/6
Logan 21 May 2011 No consensus 29 32,899 16,187 2.8% 76/29/4
Ancient Apparition 16 May 2011 Withdrawn 12 10,734 2,429 7.8% 14/21/4
N419BH 16 May 2011 Withdrawn 8 7,934 3,023 2.4% 15/22/6
Katharineamy 8 May 2011 Withdrawn 49 87,437 20 0.01% 2/2/0 Nominator blocked for sockpuppetry
Floydian 5 May 2011 SNOW 24 18,532 6,690 3.3% 1/10/6
Hazard-SJ 1 May 2011 SNOW 10 2,872 820 14.6% 6/20/4
Andrew J powers 24 April 2011 SNOW 1 188 30 6% 0/3/0 NAC
Wikispott 24 April 2011 SNOW 4 41 8 10% 0/3/0
Ant682 23 April 2011 SNOW 1 92 3 25% 0/3/0 NAC
Cjc811 13 April 2011 SNOW 3 141 71 4% 0/4/0
SilverSoul91911 8 April 2011 SNOW 2 575 219 6% 0/5/0
Wilbysuffolk 5 April 2011 SNOW 6 2,200 NA 19% 0/8/0
Neutralhomer 29 Mar 2011 Withdrawn 33 42,988 15,792 3.9% 41/41/11 Nominated
NickPenguin 27 Mar 2011 No consensus 10 4,457 2,031 1.6% 51/30/5
SunCountryGuy01 22 Mar 2011 SNOW 3 2,747 1,180 2.5% 0/13/0 Indef blocked for sockpuppetry
My76Strat 15 Mar 2011 No consensus 12 10,390 3,538 6.8% 34/37/11
Inka 888 15 Mar 2011 SNOW 7 4,500 1,154 4.5% 1/8/0
WikiCopter (2nd) 7 Mar 2011 SNOW 35 2903 697 8% 3/18/2 *
Eduemoni 7 Mar 2011 SNOW 2 2,822 858 12% 0/6/1
Ankitkool1988 6 March 2011 SNOW 24 18 9 0% 0/1/0
Snottywong 24 Feb 2011 Withdrawn 16 7,941 1,891 7% 43/42/11
Glane23 23 Feb 2011 No consensus 35 27,573 12,723 1.4% 46/26/14
Breawycker 20 Feb 2011 SNOW 2 1,421 NA UP% 0/8/1 First edit Sept 2008,VYU
Wcreed88 12 Feb 2011 SNOW 48 705 405 0.5% 0/11/1
GutiLucian02 5 Feb 2011 SNOW 1 237 12 45% 0/5/0 Indef blocked - Vandalism-only account
Nyswimmer 4 Feb 2011 SNOW 1 486 167 9.8% 0/5/1
Core2012 29 Jan 2011 SNOW 18 168 135 1.6% 0/9/0 1st ed 6/09
Reenem (2nd) 27 Jan 2011 SNOW 30 168 135 1.5% 4/20/3 NAC
GiantSnowman 21 Jan 2011 No consensus 52 41,797 24,148 1% 76/36/10 Nominated
Giftiger wunsch 12 Jan 2011 Withdrawn 20 12,756 3,084 5.7% 7/8/1 10m active,Nominated
A930913 9 Jan 2011 SNOW 9 5,811 3,991 5% 0/11/0 80% automated edits
Cprice1000 1 Jan 2011 Withdrawn 5 1,469 NA 4% 0/11/4
Guoguo12 27 Dec 2010 Withdrawn 15 5,541 2,721 3.2% 18/19/8
Richwales 18 Dec 2010 No consensus 64 4,367 2,306 8% 58/44/9 Joined 2005. 1.332 edits in preceding 12 months
Laptopmaker 10 Dec 2010 SNOW 0 42 NA 2% 1/7/1 RfA was a hoax. Indef blocked. NAC.
Darth Stabro 7 Dec 2010 SNOW 12 1,676 NA 8% 1/12/0 Last contrib Dec 2011
28bytes 3 Dec 2010 Withdrawn 7 6,380 3,717 2.2% 30/24/4 Joined 2006
The Arbiter 29 Nov 2010 Withdrawn 4 1,713 253 23% 2/6/1 Joined 2009. 1,113 edits in preceding 12 months.
Navy blue84 14 Nov2010 Withdrawn 29 3,046 1,723 10.6% 3/10/4
Access Denied 11 Nov 2010 Withdrawn 7 8,414 2,674 10.5% 20/34/11 Auto edits: 55%. Indef blocked and banned
Endofskull 10 Nov 2010 SNOW 5 4,536 1,230 2.5% 3/14/2 Joined WP with a goal to become an admin
BuickCenturyDriver 9 Nov 2010 Withdrawn 22 5,634 2,500 9.7% 0/12/0 791 edits in preceding 12 months
Redthoreau 4 Nov 2010 Withdrawn 48 15,501 NA NA 8/22/5 Essjay controversy. First edit 2007. Nominated
Ling.Nut 3 Nov 2010 No consensus 19 33,560 14,270 4% 113/63/7 Joined 2006.
Ezekiel63745‎ 31 Oct 2010 SNOW 0.25 139 NA NA% 0/7/0 VYU
Halil marx07 27 Oct 2010 SNOW 7 1,025 NA 20% 0/9/0 NNEng
Aiken drum 27 Oct 2010 Withdrawn 14 3,099 5,709 1% 15/27/11
Cliffmore 21 Oct 2010 SNOW 4 23 NA 17% 0/3/0
Tommy2010 10 Oct 2010 Withdrawn 9 67,870 32,096 2.4% 8/9/2
Silver seren 6 Oct 2010 No consensus 7 6,759 2,576 8.2% 37/44/15 Joined 2006. many long breaks. Nom & conom
Nations United 3 Oct 2010 Withdrawn 8 267 NA 19% 1/5/1
TransporterMan 1 Oct 2010 Withdrawn 12 3,924 807 25.3% 15/22/2 Nom & conom
07bargem 30 Sept 2010 SNOW 10 1,481 NA UP% 0/6/0 NAC
barts1a 29 Sept 2010 SNOW 4 1,187 NA UP% 1/11/1
Armbrust 28 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 22 47,025 32,417 UP% 16/21/13
Bobby122 23 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 3 2,346 NA UP% 0/4/1 VYU
Secret 22 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 37 7,517 2602 5.05% 18/9/6
Joe Gazz84 19 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 4 1,520 233 UP% 0/4/1
Torchwoodwho 16 Sept 2010 SNOW 3 5,125 1,404 UP% 0/8/2 Joined 2006. Early admin close, so list as 'snow'
YOSF0113 15 Sept 2010 SNOW 1 308 NA UP% 0/1/5 Early admin close, so list as 'snow'
WikiCopter 13 Sept 2010 SNOW 1 522 NA UP% 4/15/5
Minimac 11 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 12 10,595 4,414 UP% 3/4/1
Terrasidius 1 Sept 2010 Withdrawn 3 5,353 3,601 UP% 11/24/13 Joined 2006. 109 edits in previous 12 months
T 30 Aug 2010 Withdrawn 5 3,972 1,955 UP% 9/15/5 Joined 2005. 582 edits in previous 12 months
JahaalChakravarti 28 Aug 2010 SNOW 1 63 NA UP1.2% 0/3/0
GSorbyDesroid 28 Aug 2010 SNOW 8 437 NA UP% 0/6/3
William S. Saturn 27 Aug 2010 Withdrawn 28 6,878 2,631 UP% 7/21/0
Falcon8765 27 Aug 2010 Withdrawn 21 53,859 31,217 UP% 41/26/2
Jc3s5h 19 Aug 2010 No consensus 18 5,106 2,038 UP% 38/30/8

Part 5. RfA on other Wikipedias

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Comparison RfA other Wikipedias

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Data as of 30 June 2011 (Recovered by Kudpung).
Due to some non updated pages in their various RfA related pages, there may be ambiguities leading to minor inaccuracies in this information.)

RfA on various Wikipedias
Articles Admins Active Candidate quals. Voter quals. Duration Closed by Threshold Notes
English 3,670,904 1,792 730: 30+ edits last 2 months none none 7 days Bureaucrats Discretionary: almost all above 75% pass; almost all below 70% fail. 70-75% is crat discretion. Reconfirmations require less support, the lowest pass being at 61%. Manual transclusion. Admins are desysopped after 12 months without any edits.[1]
Dutch 712.486 65 65 1,000 - 1st edit 6 months ago 100 - 1 month 7 days Bureaucrats 75% pass. Manual transclusion
French 1,120,267 196 193: edited in last 3 months None. 3000+ edits recommended. 1 week. 50+ edits 15 days. Bureaucrats Discretionary: Opposes count more than supports Transclusion is automated
German 1,252,818 284 119: See note (German) below. 1 year and 'significant' 4-figure edits as as 'a writer and staff in various fields'. Active 2+ months. 200+ edits (edits) in the article namespace (at least 50 in the last 12 months) 14 days Bureaucrats Discretionary: 66% with a minimum 50 support votes. Transclusion is part automated. Desyoped after 1 year inactivity.
Italian 815.290 175 (see note 'Italian' below 103 2+ months and 500+ edits 2+ months and 500+ edits - 1st edit 60 days before the RfA 14 days Any experienced user (usually admins)
Rights assigned by Bureaucrats 		80% - Complex quorum based on an average of votes on the preceding four RfA elections. See note (Italian) below. Manual transclusion of candidacy, voting is separate. Yearly reconfirmation for all admins.
Spanish 782.861 141 81: used their tools in last 6 months none none? 15 days Any admin. Rights changed by Bureaucrats 75% Votes are not commented. Discussion on talk page. No neutral vote section
Swedish 401,338 103 1 inactive registered registered 7 days Bureaucrats 75% Votes are generally not commented. Discussion (if any) on bottom of page. No question section.

Notes

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Dutch
  • Adminship is nominally for one year and will be reconfirmed if there are less than four oppositions.
  • Bureaucrats and stewards can temporarily accord admin rights.
  • Admins with less than 50 edits in 12 months are automatically desysopped.
French
  • Candidatures are posted to the VP, and sent out on mailing lists. Edit count opt-in is automated.
  • 'Significant' contributions for voters:
    • Writing and improvement of an Article in general.
    • Entries in spaces Category, Template, Reference, Images, help
    • The addition of an article in a group
    • Adding or editing aTemplate
    • Adding or editing a reference
    • Adding animage'for an article
    • Contributing to help pages (significant non-encyclopedic)
    • The addition of interwiki links on an article.
    • The correction of spelling on an article.
German
  • Nomination transculsion partly automated.
  • Candidate's RfA page has a button to test voters' rights.
  • 'Neutral' votes are not taken into consideration.
  • Votes may be commented, but if more than one paragraph, should be on the talk page.
  • Votes should not be commented on by others, except on the talk page.
  • Admin status is revoked after one year of inactivity, and must be reacquired through a new RfA..
  • Inactive admins are broken down into many list which include among others:
    • 6 admins have not edited for 6 months
    • 34 handed their tools in
    • 74 Non re-elected after lapse of tenure.
Italian
  • Pass rate is expressed through a complex quorum that is set by the average of votes on the previous four RfA elections: (based on a much improved Google translation):
    • To prevent an administrator to be elected without a sufficiently large number of Wikipedians expressing their its support/a quorum on votes, a quorum is defined as follows:
    • For the election to be successful, the number of voters in favor of greater or equal to the value of a quorum.
    • The election is valid for the next calculation of the quorum will be necessary that the number of voters (favorable + against) is greater than or equal to the value of a quorum.
    • The quorum will be calculated by multiplying 2/3 of the average number of voters (counting only for and against) on the last four concluded elections.
    • The calculation shall take account only of the elections in which a quorum has been reached.
    • In cases of elections that take place concurrently, in the calculation of the quorum will be based on the one that received the most votes.
    • More concisely the quorum Q can be expressed as follows: Q = 2 / 3 × [(x + y + z + w) / 4] = (x + y + z + w) / 6
  • Reconfirmation after 1 year. If 15 qualified users oppose the tacit confirmation, a vote of confirmation is initiated with the same RfA system except it requires 66% to pass.
  • Adminship automatically lapses after 6 months of inactivity, or if in the last 6 months the tools were not used.
  • Lapsed admins must wait 3 months before reapplying.
  • Resigned: 51
  • Not re-elected: 14
  • Lost automatically after 6 months of inactivity: 6
  • Total former admins: 71
Spanish
  • Candidatures are posted to the VP, and sent out on mailing lists.
  • Votes are generally not commented.
  • Discussion, if any (rare), takes place on the talk page.
  • It is recommended that oppose votes are commented. However, votes are reminded that that a policy of not Personal attacks is in effect, so inappropriate comments about the candidates are not allowed into the discussion.
  • Closure by any admin. Technical rights changed by bureaucrat.
  • Almost all admins are bureaucrats as well.
  • There is no 'neutral' voting section.
  • Nominations must be notified in the Wikipedia: Billboard events, Café and the mailing list for the information of other users. To file a third of your confidence as a librarian candidate must obtain prior consent.
  • 28 admins have handed their tools in. One admin was desysoped.
Swedish
  • Votes are generally not commented.
  • Discussion, if any (rare), takes place on the bottom of the page.
  • Nominal 1 year, then re run at same conditions
  • No set procedure for desysoping

References

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  1. ^ Consensus 2 July 2011
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