Research:EN Admins
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Duration: 2009-November – ??
This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
Please contact the project lead before formally citing or reusing results from this page.
Key Personnel Edit
Project Summary Edit
- Tracking the size of EN wiki's active community of admins
- Identifying trends in qualifying criteria for adminship
- Predicting future size of EN wiki's admin cadre
- Analysing admins in terms of their wikigenerations
- Comparing EN to other wikis
Methods Edit
- Statistical analysis based on data available on wiki
- To produce a similar hotcold matrix for other projects I need to know the number of successful RFAs per month or per quarter for that project, such as by a link to the equivalent of en:Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_adminship listing totals by month.
Dissemination Edit
- Signpost articles, postings on the RFA talkpage
Wikimedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects Protection Edit
All data is publicly available and at least somewhat anomymised.
Benefits for the Wikimedia community Edit
Time Line Edit
Funding Edit
Results Edit
External links Edit
See also Edit
- previous research by en:user:Durin sowing success rates by number of edits 2005/6
- a graph of DE admins
