2009/2/12 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/12 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
The ArbCom culls around 1% of the admin body annually
Is less than that, surely? 1% of the *active* admin body, maybe.
Ok, I've done the sums:
Special:Statistics says we have 1623 admins, 1% of that is 16. Wikipedia:Former_administrators shows 10 admins desysopped (involuntarily) total in the last year (to end of January), 7 by ArbCom, 2 of which were only for 6 months. I don't know what the average number of admins during that year was, but it looks like ArbCom permanently desysop less than 0.5% of the admin body annually.
Well, "active" admins are the only ones likely to be the subject of an Arbitration case, no? And that's said to be around 800.
Sure, there's no problem with just considering active admins, but you need to be clear about what you're discussing.
But in any case taking one year's numbers isn't particularly the right way to look at this issue. One good wheel-war ...
Of course, but things change so rapidly that I'm not sure data from 2 years ago is relevant. For information only, there were 11 desysoppings in the year to the end of January 2008, 9 by Arbcom. I don't know how many admins there were at that time, but I'm pretty sure there were more than 900, so 1% is still an overestimate.
If you do restrict it to just active admins, it's probably a decent estimate.