Here are some numbers I pulled a few months ago regarding the number of admin requests over time:
successful unsuccessful total requests % successful 2004 177 63 240 74% 2005 387 213 600 65% 2006 353 543 896 39% 2007 408 512 920 44% 2008 201 392 593 34% 2009 121 234 355 34%
I can't comment on the reasons, but I thought I'd share the data in case people are interested.
Howie
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_adminship and related pages. Note: 2004 is incomplete as unsuccessful candidacies were tracked starting April 2005
On 5/26/10 3:51 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
Pretty much. That's more or less why I quit the project.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM, The Cunctatorcunctator@gmail.com wrote:
By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project. It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this undergo.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kwan Ting Chanktc@ktchan.info wrote:
WereSpielChequers wrote:
What are the likely results of a dwindling number of admins, and a growing wikigeneration gap between admins and other editors?
Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard
expected
of a candidate for RfA has gone up over the years?
KTC
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