One should should demonstrate at least one year of experience as a writer and collaborator in various fields of the project. Candidates with less experience have no chance of being elected to adminship. Candidates that do not have a significant four-digit number of edits are mostly rejected. The proportions of the edits in different namespaces is often critically examined. German Wikipedia: Administrators
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Current admin count: 859 (list all), 733 of them active (as of 10 September 2011). Activity is defined as 30 or more edits during the last two months. 235 have not edited in at least 3 months. (list)
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[edit]
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.
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
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
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.