User:Giraffer/2024 U4C special election guide

This is a rough analysis of each candidate's Wikimedia experience, using their statistics. Blank or mostly incomplete candidacies are excluded, as are ineligible candidates.

To avoid any confusion: the official guide is an adaptation of my first table, with some editorial judgements removed.

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Table 1: Candidate statistics


Candidate	Reg. date	Edit count^[1]	Rights (sysop or higher)^[2]	Homewiki	Seat	Languages	Previous runs
1233	2012-02	14900	none	Chinese Wikipedia	CAL	yue, en, zh	2024 (47.01%, 15/37)
787IYO	2021-09	11000	none	Hausa Wikipedia	SSA, CAL	ha, en, ar, nup	2024 (36.27%, 29/37)
Aishik Rehman	2018-04	1,212,000	sysop	Bengali Wikipedia	SA, CAL	bn, en, as, hi, ne
Ajraddatz	2010-01	58000	sysop (Meta, Wikidata) oversighter (Wikidata), checkuser (Meta), steward	Wikidata	NA, CAL	en, fr
Azogbonon	2019-01	26300	none	French Wikipedia	SSA	fr
C.Suthorn	2016-08	181100	none	Commons	CEE, CAL	de, en	2024 (47.29%, 14/37)
Dera xoxo	2021-11	3400	none	Igbo Wikipedia	SSA, CAL	en, ig
Faendalimas	2006-06^[3]	11200	bureaucrat, sysop, checkuser, ombuds	Wikispecies	LAC, CAL	en, pt, fr
Krd	2008-08^[4]	237000	sysop (Commons, German Wikipedia, Meta), bureaucrat (Commons, German Wikipedia), checkuser (Commons)	Commons	CAL	de, en
Iwuala Lucy	2020-02	10100	none	Igbo Wikipedia	SSA, CAL	en, ig	2024 (43.72%, 17/37)
Leaderboard	2013-11	13600	sysop (English Wikibooks, Mediawiki, Meta)	English Wikibooks	CAL	en, ml, hi	2024 (47.66%, 13/37)
NANöR	2019-07	29700	sysop (Arabic Wikisource)	Arabic Wikipedia	CAL	ar, sv, en, fr	2024 (51.89%, 10/37)
ProtoplasmaKid	2006-04^[5]	92700	bureaucrat, sysop (Spanish Wikipedia, Spanish Wikinews)	Spanish Wikipedia	LAC	es, en	2024 (53.69%, 9/37)
Taoheedah	2021-11	7850	none	English Wikiquote	SSA, CAL	none specified
Waltercolor	2010-11	6000	none^[6]	French Wikipedia	CAL	fr, en, de
Ybsen lucero	2010-11	1770	none	Spanish Wikipedia	LAC	es, en	2024 (40.35%, 21/37)
~aanzx	2014-05^[7]	13500^[8]	sysop	Kannada Wikipedia	SA, CAL	kn, hi, en, tcy
Боки	2018-09	20000	checkuser	Serbian Wikipedia	CEE	sr, en, hr

Legend

Any candidate involuntarily desysopped or blocked within the past three years is automatically coloured red. Candidates who did not answer any questions before the voting period began are also automatically colored red. If neither of these conditions apply, the criteria below are used.

Bureaucrat, arbitrator, or functionary experience 10000 edits and non-temporary sysop rights OR 20000 edits Does not meet either of the above criteria

Sorting the table by rights will also sort it by color.


Abbreviation	Seat
NA	North America (US & Canada)
NWE	Northwestern Europe
LAC	Latin America and Caribbean
CEE	Central and Eastern Europe
SSA	Sub-Saharan Africa
MENA	Middle East and Northern Africa
ESEAP	East, South East Asia and Pacific
SA	South Asia
CAL	Community-at-large

↑ To three significant figures.
↑ Includes bureaucrat, checkuser, oversighter, arbitrator, and steward. All permissions listed are on the specified homewiki unless stated otherwise. Test and affiliate wikis are excluded.
↑ CentralAuth gives a date of September 2009, but their first edit was in June 2006.
↑ CentralAuth gives a date of July 2009, but the dewiki local interface says August 2008.
↑ CentralAuth gives a registration date of 2011, but their registration was pre-SUL. Their first edit is from April 2006.
↑ While Waltercolor has no significant onwiki permissions, they were part of the U4C Building Committee, Revisions Committee, and the Phase II Drafting Committee for the Enforcement Guidelines. This experience does not fill the criteria for a higher color band but is both relevant and substantial, and I have left them uncolored (rather than red) to reflect this.
↑ Their current account's CentralAuth dates to October 2021, but they have a previous account which was registered in May 2014.
↑ On their current account.

Table 2: Homewikis

This table displays some additional information about candidates who have declared there homewiki to be a wiki that is not their most edited.

"EC" is an abbreviation for edit count. All numbers are to two significant figures.


Candidate	Homewiki rank by edits^[1]	Homewiki EC divided by total EC	Homewiki EC divided by most edited wiki EC	Homewiki	Most edited wiki
787IYO	2	0.22	0.39	Hausa Wikipedia	Commons
Ajraddatz	2	0.29	0.75	Wikidata	Meta
Iwuala Lucy	5	0.08	0.23	Igbo Wikipedia	Commons
ProtoplasmaKid	2	0.26	0.60	Spanish Wikipedia	Commons
Taoheedah	2	0.11	0.22	English Wikiquote	Yoruba Wikipedia

↑ In other words, if the candidate's homewiki is their most edited wiki, it would be 1. If it is their second most edited, it would be 2, etc.

[1] To three significant figures.

[2] Includes bureaucrat, checkuser, oversighter, arbitrator, and steward. All permissions listed are on the specified homewiki unless stated otherwise. Test and affiliate wikis are excluded.

[3] CentralAuth gives a date of September 2009, but their first edit was in June 2006.

[4] CentralAuth gives a date of July 2009, but the dewiki local interface says August 2008.

[5] CentralAuth gives a registration date of 2011, but their registration was pre-SUL. Their first edit is from April 2006.

[6] While Waltercolor has no significant onwiki permissions, they were part of the U4C Building Committee, Revisions Committee, and the Phase II Drafting Committee for the Enforcement Guidelines. This experience does not fill the criteria for a higher color band but is both relevant and substantial, and I have left them uncolored (rather than red) to reflect this.

[7] Their current account's CentralAuth dates to October 2021, but they have a previous account which was registered in May 2014.

[8] On their current account.

[9] In other words, if the candidate's homewiki is their most edited wiki, it would be 1. If it is their second most edited, it would be 2, etc.

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