2009/2/12 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/12 Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
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.