Forum:Admin ship average edits

What is the average number of edits/time on wiki for admin rights? ---Hockeyben 01:37, April 24, 2011 (UTC)

There is none, when a bureaucrat feels someone has done a good job on the wiki and can handle being an admin, then they should be an admin. There is no set time or edit number.--


 * Often it depends on the size and history of the community of the wiki. Larger, more established wikis tend to have more strenuous requirements because they can afford to be picky about their candidates, but then again it varies greatly. Just some examples:


 * Wowpedia: No edit or time requirements
 * Wookieepedia: 6 months of activity; 18 years old; "some" major article contributions
 * The Vault: 500 edits in the article, category, or template namespaces; 3 months of activity
 * Zeldapedia: 400 mainspace edits; 2 months of activity
 * Halopedia: 1,500 edits ; 1,000 mainpace edits ; 6 months of activity
 * ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 22:04, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd advise strongly against having a rule saying "users must have this before they RFA" - it means 2 things:


 * 1) Good nominations may well be missed
 * 2) Users may RFA as soon as they get to the limit, they may well "burn out" after making the edits
 * Quality is better than quantity - the RFA should be a user-driven process, where the wiki voices their opinion and gains consensus on the quality of the candidate, if that candidate is of good quality (perhaps he keeps making good templates, but doesn't make that many edits) - he shouldn't be disqualified from a sysop position just because he has a low number of edits.
 * Don't mistake quality for quantity, don't make any "rules" about the number of edits required for adminship, by all means "a low number of edits" or "hasn't really participated in the community much yet" - might be a negative quality for a candidate - but it should not automatically disqualify.  Random Time  22:11, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * All that said, making someone an admin who isn't an active user isn't much use and edit count can be a way to gauge activity. Of course, edit count is also relative. If your wiki only has around 100 pages and someone made 10 of them and has 50 edits, that makes a big difference from a wiki with 10,000 pages. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 25 Apr 2011 5:15 PM Pacific