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(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)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