Here are some numbers I pulled a few months ago regarding the number of
admin requests over time:
successful unsuccessful total requests % successful
2004 177 63 240 74%
2005 387 213 600 65%
2006 353 543 896 39%
2007 408 512 920 44%
2008 201 392 593 34%
2009 121 234 355 34%
I can't comment on the reasons, but I thought I'd share the data in case
people are interested.
Howie
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_adminship
and related pages.
Note: 2004 is incomplete as unsuccessful candidacies were tracked
starting April 2005
On 5/26/10 3:51 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> Pretty much. That's more or less why I quit the project.
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM, The Cunctator<cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active
>> project.
>> It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this
>> undergo.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kwan Ting Chan<k...@ktchan.info> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> WereSpielChequers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> What are the likely results of a dwindling number of admins, and a
>>>> growing wikigeneration gap between admins and other editors?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
>>> inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard
>>>
>> expected
>>
>>> of a candidate for RfA has gone up over the years?
>>>
>>> KTC
>>>
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