User talk:Enterprisey/Tenures at RfA

Proxy measures for active editing

Last year just for curiosity I started collecting some data on when an admin became active. As proxy measures, I used the year when their edits in that year exceeded various threshold values. Part way through I started collecting data on when their talk page edits in a given year exceeded various threshold values (where I considered talk page edits to be the sum of the edits in talk space + Wikipedia space + Wikipedia talk space). You can see the partial data I collected at User:Isaacl/Community/Analysis of requests for administrative privileges. Because I wasn't planning yet to do anything with the data, I was gathering it by hand, but it could be automated to make it easier. These measures are of course imperfect: editors might rack up a lot of edits through bot editing or a lot of minor copyedits, and some editors take long breaks, which could be considered to reset the editor's experience with Wikipedia back to the start (I noted some of the patterns that I came across). I'm mentioning it just to give some ideas on how the start of active editing might be approximated using an algorithm, to facilitate collecting the info. isaacl (talk) 07:14, 11 September 2022 (UTC)