User talk:BilledMammal/List of RFCs
Manual corrections
[edit]Is it worth adding manual corrections to this list?
For example, one item says:
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Major Overhaul || WhatamIdoing || 23:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
but that RFC was started by Noraft at 05:03, 11 December 2009. (I corrected the formatting several days later, which is how my name ended up on the central RFC pages.) Also, the link would ideally point to Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes/Archive 2#Major Overhaul. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- You're welcome to do so, but I don't think it's worthwhile - it's not practical to correct the entire list.
- Getting the correct link is possible - I do something similar elsewhere - but my current methods aren't plausible at this scale, as there are two many pages to parse. A database extract would work, but unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to do that.
- It's harder to fix the username issue, but the scale of it could be reduced by more frequent parsing - I took one revision every seven days from each of the categories, to minimize the number of revisions I needed to review (even at that low frequency, it was still around 10,000) but decreasing that to one or two days would address most of that issue. BilledMammal (talk) 07:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- I think that as long as we keep the limitations in mind, then we don't need to re-run the data. If someone wants to make corrections for a particular RFC, then that's fine, too. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Descriptive statistics
[edit]- It's a lot of RFCs, but it's less than it used to be: Almost 17,000 RFCs are listed in this data set, going back to 2007.
- This list shows 752 RFCs in 2023, 913 in 2022, and 995 in 2021. This is down significantly compared to previous years: 1,249 in 2020 [beginning of the pandemic], 1,311 in 2015, and 1,215 in 2010.
- We are currently on track for a record low for 2024. Unless something changes, we should expect about 700 RFCs in 2024.
- In the 2010s, we ran about three new RFCs per day. In 2024, we will average about two new RFCs per day.
- Most people are inexperienced: About 9% of RFCs were unsigned. Almost 6,000 logged-in editors started more than 15,000 (~90%) signed RFCs. Something around 250 RFCs (1.5%) were started by IPs.
- 60% of editors in this list created one RFC. Another 15% have started only two RFCs.
- Half of all signed RFCs are started by the 90% of editors who have started four or fewer RFCs.
- However, some people start a lot more RFCs than normal. Three editors have each started more than 100 RFCs. The counts fall off rapidly from there. A dozen editors have started 50+ RFCs, and another 30 editors have created between 25 and 49 RFCs. These 45 editors have started about 2,000 RFCs between them.
- The numbers really add up for high-volume RFC editors: Just 25 editors account for about 10% of the signed RFCs. Just 1% of the people starting RFCs (60 editors) have created 15% of RFCs; each of them has created at least 20 RFCs.