It's that time again!, Time for 2011 arbcom elections. Options

[that one guy]

I think the topic says it all, but the default questions they have for the candidates this year are particularly good from my view.

[Peter Damian]

As promised earlier here is the editing table updated with the new candidates. http://www.logicmuseum.com/x/index.php?tit...diting_patterns


Its primary sort order is by ‘A max’, which indicates how ‘focused’ an editor is. A high number signifies focus on one particular page. This correlates highly with content creators. A low number suggests highly repetitive ‘gnome’ work.

Keep in mind that the sampling was the last 5,000 edits (or all edits, whichever is lower). This may have unfairly disadvantaged editors like Courcelles, who has 5,000 edits this month alone, and more than 100,000 since inception. But then you have to ask why someone is making 5,000 edits a month.

In descending order of usefulness:

Panyd

Scores 187 on focus, which is high for the group, but actually this is for Template talk:Did you know (templates count as article work). The first article we come to is 50 Berkeley Square ‎which is only 15 edits. Suggests a ‘gnome’

NWA.Rep

Has only 4,000 edits. Focus score is 98, for Culture of Taiwan, followed by 92 for List of Chinese Americans. There should be a weighting factor for any list article, perhaps even a negative weight, but I haven’t implemented this.

Eluchil404

Focus score 68 for Skandar Keynes.

Worm That Turned

Focus 65 for ‘Pasty’, followed by 26 for ‘BLT’, an article about a sandwich.

SilkTork

Scores 64 for Eastbourne.

Kww

Focus 58 for Selena Gomez & the Scene discography. Most of his article edits are related to Selena Gomez (who she?).

Jclemens

Focus 49 for the talk page of Talk:Family Research Council.

Roger Davies

28 for Jonathan Sumption. A low value which may not reflect earlier content work – remember this test looks only at the last 5,000 edits.

Hot Stop

Focus 28 for George Godsey (football coach). Only 900 edits available.

DeltaQuad

Focus of 8 for Template:Proxycheckstatus. This low number puts DQ in the good company of Hersfold and Courcelles. Only 973 edits to articles, the balance being 1691 for user space, 2335 for Wikipedia space. Top edited page in Wikipedia space was “Wikipedia:Requests for page protection”. Also very involved in sockpuppet investigation.

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Fri 25th November 2011, 8:09pm

[EricBarbour]

Kww

Focus 58 for Selena Gomez & the Scene discography. Most of his article edits are related to Selena Gomez (who she?).

Selena Gomez (T-H-L-K-D) is a teenaged Disney princess/actress/singer thing.
And Kww is a middle-aged man, making his obsession with her very, very disturbing.

This is another component of Wikipedia's popularity--it serves as a place where creepy celebrity
stalkers can write obsessive essays about their target personality. Anonymously.

That's a great chart, the Wiki-Sillies could easily make a similar rating system for admins to
help decide who should be given more power. But that will never happen.

Wargaming is far more important than knowledge.

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Fri 25th November 2011, 8:21pm

[opinionated spectator]

Kww

Focus 58 for Selena Gomez & the Scene discography. Most of his article edits are related to Selena Gomez (who she?).

Selena Gomez (T-H-L-K-D) is a teenaged Disney princess/actress/singer thing.
And Kww is a middle-aged man, making his obsession with her very, very disturbing.

This is another component of Wikipedia's popularity--it serves as a place where creepy celebrity
stalkers can write obsessive essays about their target personality. Anonymously.

That's a great chart, the Wiki-Sillies could easily make a similar rating system for admins to
help decide who should be given more power. But that will never happen.

Wargaming is far more important than knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...ns_from_NWA.Rep
This just in. It appears NWA is insinuating something about Kww due to his disturbing obsession with Gomez. Any idea what "recent event in the news" he is talking about?

This post has been edited by opinionated spectator: Sat 26th November 2011, 8:13am

[radek]

After thinking a whole bunch about it, here's my voter guide. I eschewed the jokes (I can't even joke about this stuff anymore) in favor of simplicity this year.

[radek]

I was gonna make a "what if only voter guide writers voted" list but Monty845 beat me to it.

IF the voter guide voters are representative of ArbCom election voters (who are themselves probably not representative of Wikipedia as a whole) then we'll get

Courcelles, Risker, Hersfold, SilkTork, AGK, Kirill Lokshin, Worm That Turned, Roger Davies

elected (assuming they chose 8 rather than 7).

Which is a ... "who cares".

But it's also interesting to see - assuming that these people really do get elected - which one of the voter guide writers is the "most" and "least" representative.

The most representative would be HJ Mitchell and Nuclear Warfare, with Sandy Georgia not to far behind.

The least representative would WMC, though that's mostly because like me, he's gonna pretty much vote a straight "Oppose" ticket (though he didn't have the cojones to go all the way with it). Other than that this fellah Hurrican25fan seems a bit contrary. Someone should ban him before it's too late.

[~DC]

Christ, Sandy Georgia is an annoying lil twat. I remember last year, she bitched and moaned about the candidates. Now more of the same this year. If she thinks she's so great, she should run. I'd love to see her arrogance disappear after she lost to NWA.

[opinionated spectator]

Christ, Sandy Georgia is an annoying lil twat. I remember last year, she bitched and moaned about the candidates. Now more of the same this year. If she thinks she's so great, she should run. I'd love to see her arrogance disappear after she lost to NWA.

I'm not familiar with her. Who do you think will finish last? My money is on the 2 non-admins: NWA and Hot Stop.

[~DC]

Christ, Sandy Georgia is an annoying lil twat. I remember last year, she bitched and moaned about the candidates. Now more of the same this year. If she thinks she's so great, she should run. I'd love to see her arrogance disappear after she lost to NWA.

Basically, she's mostly involved with article reviewing, but every election she bitches about every candidate that isn't in her small circle of buddies. Here's some stuff on the talk page where she rails against the candidates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:San...#Election_guide

I'm not familiar with her. Who do you think will finish last? My money is on the 2 non-admins: NWA and Hot Stop.

I'd expect Geni to give them a run for their money.

[Peter Damian]

I'd expect Geni to give them a run for their money.

You mean the two non-admins?

[~DC]

I'd expect Geni to give them a run for their money.

You mean the two non-admins?

Correct. I can't imagine many people supporting a defrocked admin.