2009/2/12 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 2009/2/12 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> The
>>> ArbCom culls around 1% of the admin body annually
>>>
>>
>> Is less than that, surely? 1% of the *active* admin body, maybe.
>>
>> Ok, I've done the sums:
>>
>> Special:Statistics says we have 1623 admins, 1% of that is 16.
>> Wikipedia:Former_administrators shows 10 admins desysopped
>> (involuntarily) total in the last year (to end of January), 7 by
>> ArbCom, 2 of which were only for 6 months. I don't know what the
>> average number of admins during that year was, but it looks like
>> ArbCom permanently desysop less than 0.5% of the admin body annually.
>>
> Well, "active" admins are the only ones likely to be the subject of an
> Arbitration case, no?  And that's said to be around 800.

Sure, there's no problem with just considering active admins, but you
need to be clear about what you're discussing.

>  But in any
> case taking one year's numbers isn't particularly the right way to look
> at this issue.  One good wheel-war ...

Of course, but things change so rapidly that I'm not sure data from 2
years ago is relevant. For information only, there were 11
desysoppings in the year to the end of January 2008, 9 by Arbcom. I
don't know how many admins there were at that time, but I'm pretty
sure there were more than 900, so 1% is still an overestimate.

If you do restrict it to just active admins, it's probably a decent estimate.

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