User talk:Isaacl

Proposed decision in the Venezuelan politics case posted

The proposed decision in the open Venezuelan politics arbitration case has been posted. Comments on the proposed decision may be brought to the attention of the committee at the talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 17:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Admin candidates' edit counts

I am glad to see that you kept the statistics, although they weren't what I was talking about exactly. But maybe, from them, we could get what I wanted to look at.

The key for me is not how fast an individual admin candidate's edit count grows over time. It's how many edits they had at the time of an RfA (yes, some candidates having multiple RfAs does complicate things a bit). That, I'd like to see plotted into some sort of visual. At least with the most simplistic data, we could see if there's a point where a successful candidacy becomes more likely and maybe see if that's the point at which we might offer candidates the chance to forego the two days' discussion.

I suppose in the future we might also look at, say, the portions of the candidates' edits by namespace at the time of the RfA and see if that has any effect. Daniel Case (talk) 05:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, my data collection was a initial rough approximation of an editor's tenure at the time they became an admin. I chose to measure the start of that tenure by the first year when their edits exceeded a threshold, and looked at thresholds based on total edits and on talk page edits. The idea is that an editor's formative experiences start once they begin engaging with others to a higher degree. I also arbitrarily chose a threshold number of edits below which an editor is considered to be away from the project. Accordingly the number of active years can be roughly measured by length of tenure minus years away during that tenure.

As I mentioned, because those who commented previously didn't appear that interested, due to the large variability of each individual editor's circumstances, I wasn't motivated to try to refine the data to a more granular level (such as the exact time when editors made a request for administrative privileges), or to chart the data. If you wanted to look into it further, that would be great. I used the XTools edit counter page for the edit stats; I linked to the individual editor pages in the data tables. isaacl (talk) 06:38, 10 June 2024 (UTC)