A completely un deduped (and so is double+ counting anyone who is eligible on multiple wikis because of activity there) number is 207911 for 2013.
Caveats:
This number is quick and dirty and 'reasonable' as a starting point but far from perfect, among other things:
- It doesn't include 100% of the staff or developers, only the staff who had staff rights or asked and developers who asked because they couldn't vote in other ways). This is a relatively small amount of missing people. - It still includes bots and blocked users, because that was checked later in the process. I, again, think this is a relatively small amount given number of bots + blocked users with more then 300 edits relative to the total. It is possible some of the bots are very active across the board though which will be helped by the de dupping. - It is not de dupped meaning it double+ counts people who were active on many wikis or accounts, sometimes a lot (for example there are 7 entries for my personal account, 7 for my work account, and 69 for the steward DerHexer given global work). Sorting through the crap that the script spat out is more then I'm willing to do at 5am but I will try to do this later today and get this number down. My guess is this is in the 10k range.
James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:36 AM, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
(*) No official numbers exist... but I already opened one thread on transparency this week.
Just to clarify so that I know what you're looking and can try and prioritize it. You are looking for the total number of eligible voters so that we can determine the actual turn out percentage? It could be a bit of a pain because of the lack of SUL and the fact that people can be eligible on multiple wikis but if I assume that 'same name = duplicate' then it shouldn't take too much manual jiggering after the scripts run. I will try to do that this afternoon (Sunday).
I always intended to release more stats after the last election (and I know you've asked before), sadly issues came up in the pipeline and other work over came it priority wise so at the moment it would have to be in my personal time I do still want too or to find someone else who is able too :(.
James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur