This page contains an assortment of tables that I've created or borrowed re RFA. some figures change monthly and others less frequently, anyone is welcome to help keep these updated. Redesigns and expansions are best discussed on the talkpage first. If I go inactive for more than three months then I would be delighted if another editor saw this as sufficiently valuable to move it to Wikipedia space and take over maintaining and developing it.

Successful requests for adminship on the English Wikipedia[1]
Year Month Mean Passes Fails[N 1] RfAs[N 2]
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2024 2 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 13 1 1.9 23 29 52[N 3]
2023 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 12 7 19
2022 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 4 1 2 0 2 1.2 14 6 20
2021 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0.6 7 4 11
2020 4 1 2 0 3 0 1 1 3 1 0 1 1.4 17 8 25
2019 2 1 0 1 1 0 3 4 1 4 2 3 1.8 22 9 31
2018 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 0.8 10 8 18
2017 9 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 1 2 1 1 1.8 21 20 41
2016 0 1 1 1 3 0 2 1 1 1 1 4 1.3 16 20 36
2015 2 2 1 0 3 2 2 3 0 1 3 2 1.8 21 32 53
2014 3 1 4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 1.8 22 38 60
2013 4 5 5 1 3 3 3 1 3 2 1 3 2.8 34 39 73
2012 1 3 1 3 1 1 6 4 0 1 5 2 2.3 28 64 92
2011 3 9 9 3 6 4 4 1 4 3 2 4 4.3 52 87 139
2010 6 7 2 8 8 6 7 13 6 7 4 1 6.3 75 155 230
2009 6 9 13 14 12 12 10 11 8 7 13 6 10.1 121 234 355
2008 36 27 22 12 16 18 16 12 6 16 11 9 16.8 201 392 593
2007 23 35 31 30 54 35 31 18 34 27 56 34 34.0 408 512 920
2006 44 28 34 36 30 28 26 26 22 27 33 19 29.5 353 543 896
2005 14 9 16 25 17 28 31 39 32 67 41 68 32.3 387 213 600
2004 13 14 31 20 23 13 17 12 29 16 27 25 20.0 240 63 303
2003 2 2 8 6 10 24 11 9 17 10 9 15 10.3 123 n/a[N 4] 123
2002 3 4 0 0 3 1 3.7 44 n/a[N 4] 44
Totals 2252 2481 4733[N 6]
Key
  0 successful RFAs
  26–30 successful RFAs
  1–5 successful RFAs
  31–35 successful RFAs
  6–10 successful RFAs
  36–40 successful RFAs
  11–15 successful RFAs
  41–50 successful RFAs
  16–20 successful RFAs
  51–60 successful RFAs
  21–25 successful RFAs
  More than 60 successful RFAs
Notes


Notes
  1. ^ Online only. By 2015 admins had started deleting "NotNow" RFAs which artificially reduces the unsuccessful figure
  2. ^ Except unsuccessful ones by email.
  3. ^ October 2024 RFA election results concluded in November. 11 were elected, 24 were not elected, and 3 withdrew from the election
  4. ^ a b Early RFAs were done by email and only the successes are known
  5. ^ 33 had been appointed in early 2002
  6. ^ Figures for unsuccessfuls for 2002 to 2003 are not available
References
See also


User:WereSpielChequers/WikiGenerations
Admins by wikigeneration
Aug 2010/Jan 2011 study 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Totals
Year admins created their accounts or started editing 32 109 223 404 481[1] 326 115 43 13 0 0[2] 1746
Year active admins started editing[3] 9 30 60 145 221 183 69 35 12 0 0 764
Admins still active (Aug 2010/Jan 2011) % 28.1% 27.5% 26.9% 35.9% 46% 55.1% 60% 81.4% 92.3% 43.8%


  2001/2 (7%)
  2003 (9%)
  2004 (19%)
  2005 (26%)
  2006 (24%)
  2007 (9%)
  2008 (4%)
  2009 (2%)
  2010/11 (1%)


Admin attrition
Active Admins
Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Inactive or desysopped (net) n/a 24[1] 22 25 96 382 263 194 179
Inactive or desysopped% n/a 14%[2] 6% 3% 9% 28% 22% 18% 21%
Change (net)% n/a 151.7% 100.6% 35.6% 2.7% -6.2% -7.7% -12%
"Semi-active" admins >=1 edit in last 90 days but < 30 edits in last 60 days [3] n/a 283 421 496 543 519 571 555 539 482
Inactive admins [4] n/a 439
"Active" admins at end of year (EOY) 30 edits or more in last 60 days [5] n/a 143 360 722 979 1,005 943 870 766 744 674 633 585 582 541 543 514 499 511 470 495

NB. Active admins from User:NoSeptember/Admin stats and Revision history of Wikipedia:List of administrators

  1. ^ Over three years not one
  2. ^ Over three years not one
  3. ^ semi-active admins first calculated as 198 on 8/6/2007
  4. ^ Admins with no edits in last 90 days = admins - semi-active admins - "active" admins
  5. ^ active admins peaked at 1021 on 28/2/2008

On the counting of admins

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Nobody really knows how many admin accounts there have been on the English Wikipedia, or how many actual people they represent. Some stats include admin bots, others do not. If an admin has their account renamed they are still one admin, but if they leave and return with a new account and have that sysoped then some stats count them as two admins. As of August 2, 2010, we have had at least 1,920 admins appointed (not including bots) but records for the early days are incomplete. We have 1,741 accounts with an admin flag (including bots), of whom 802 are active as editors, and 2,019 editors are recorded as carrying out admin actions on the English Wikipedia since Dec 2004, but if a protected page is moved, the automated moving of the protection settings is counted as a page protection and is listed under the username of the person who moved the page, whether or not they are actually an admin. Also, stewards can act as admins on enwiki. Nowadays developers and other staff members have a "staff" flag, but some early staff members were simply made admins, and at least one measure of our number of admins would include any of them if they made an admin action. About one new admin per day was promoted from mid-2005 to mid-March 2008; this pattern oscillated between half and a fifth of that rate until late 2009, and since then the promotion rate has dropped to one every five days.


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