User:NoSeptember/crat stats

This user subpage is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you might try contacting the user in question or seeking broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

Notes:

• Only promotions due to RfA and RfB are included.
• Bureaucrats are ordered by seniority, the newest ones on the left.
• For information about earlier promotions, see Adminship promotion history.
• For a historical list of promotions made by bureaucrats other than as a result of RfA/RfB see /other.
• For a historical list of related actions by stewards, see enwiki on the meta rights log.

• Note: Does not include test and mistaken flaggings/deflaggings that were reverted.

• In the early days (2001 through early 2003) Jimbo approved sysop promotions. Requests were either emailed to Jimbo or done on the mailing list, a fairly ad hoc process during this period. (the actual flagging was done by a developer, this could be Jimbo, Eloquence, Ed Poor or others)
• From March 2003 through mid-June 2003 promotions became more numerous and routine and were done through the mailing list (a request and few thumbs up were sufficient to get promoted by a developer). Ed Poor and Eloquence did most of these. Only the contentious cases with an objection to promotion required a final OK by Jimbo.
• In mid-June 2003 the process was moved from the mailing list to WP:RFA and Eloquence and Ed Poor continued to do the flagging for a few months. Then the job of flagging new sysops was assumed by Tim Starling almost exclusively until the advent of the bureaucrat system.
• In mid-February 2004, the new bureaucrat system went live and from that point until now it has continued. As can be seen in the chart above, Angela was the most active in the early days of bureaucrats, and then Cecropia became the most active until he resigned in 2006. Throughout the period many bureaucrats have participated in the promotion process, some more actively than others.

The records of early promotions from the mailing list can be harder to find. Links to the mailing list emails about promotions through mid-June 2003 can be found at NoSeptember/RfA chronological.

There was a sudden and shortlasting spike in renames in June/July 2008, when SUL was brought in. We had a large increase in requests as established users on other projects created global accounts and then requested to usurp accounts here that they did not own (or had forgotten the password to) and had no edits.

A similar spike in March 2007 represented WP:USURP being created; while in October 2009, over twelve hundred abusive usernames were renamed.

• Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
• Early history of adminship