Kevin,
2014 was the nadir for some raw editing numbers on English Wikipedia, on
at least one count numbers have been rising since then
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/In_focus>.
The problem in estimating the electorate is that our best metrics are
unrelated to the arbcom voting criteria, so for example we know that the
number of editors saving over 100 edits per month in mainspace is up in
2015, September's figure was 15.3% up on 2014 and the highest September
figure since 2010 <https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm>.
same month in 2014. People entitled to vote is going to be
a much larger
group than the >100 edits per month brigade, but I'd be surprised if there
wasn't a correlation between edit count and propensity to vote.
On 23 October 2015 at 02:21, Kevin Gorman <kgorman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Daniel: your suggestion doesn't reflect the
fact that 2014's election
had roughly 60% the voters of the year before. We definitely didn't
have anywhere near that much of a drop in editing metrics.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
<dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
Not to
keep harping on how important it is to vote for arbcom, but I'm
still just flummoxed by the fact that arbcom is elected by about half
a percent of very active editors, and a smaller portion still of
editors who meet the requirements and have edited in say, the last
year.
Speaking as someone who does vote in ArbCom elections regularly,
although I
rarely closely follow what that body does ... I
think this might
reflect the
oft-unacknowledged fact that a great deal more
editors than we realize
do
the tasks they have set out for themselves,
"all alone or in twos", so
to
speak, managing to complete them and resolve
differences of opinion
amongst
themselves without resorting to any sort of
formal dispute-resolution
process. Of course it's only going to be those who have a reason to
care who
care about ArbCom—and, naturally, that group is
going to include a
greater
proportion of those who have agendas they'd
like to see ArbCom promote.
Daniel Case
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