User:Hut 8.5/Active admin stats by year

These tables break down admins and active admins by year of appointment. Data is as of 3 January 2013.

Admins as active editors

Year	No. promotions	% still admin	% active admin	% of active admins
2003	123	65.9	26.0	4.7
2004	240	63.3	20.8	7.3
2005	387	63.6	24.0	13.6
2006	353	64.3	19.0	9.8
2007	408	77.2	39.2	23.4
2008	201	81.6	45.8	13.5
2009	121	81.8	46.3	8.2
2010	75	92.0	74.7	8.2
2011	52	94.2	84.6	6.4
2012	28	100.0	96.4	4.0
2013	1	100.0	100.0	0.2

Key:

• Year: Year of successful RfA.
• % still admin: percentage of appointees in that year who are still admins.
• % active admin: percentage of appointees in that year who are still active admins (as defined by Wikipedia:List of administrators - 30 or more edits in the previous two months)
• % of active admins: percentage of the current active admin corps who were appointed in that year.

Note that there are 34 current admins who were not promoted through RfA. They make up 2.34% of all current admins and 1.46% of all currently active admins. This is for one of the following reasons:

• They became admins before the present on-wiki RfA process was created (User:NoSeptember/RfA chronological has a list of admins appointed prior to this).
• They are a bot (see WP:ADMINBOT for the procedure on appointing adminbots).
• They gained admin rights as a result of the work they do or did for the WMF.
• In a few rare cases they passed RfA under a previous username. I haven't included these cases for privacy reasons.

Interestingly the general rule that administrators from earlier years tend to be less active ceases to be valid after 2007. This suggests that the decline in the number of active administrators will eventually stop, though we have some way to go yet.

Admins by number of admin actions

This table classifies admins by years promoted and admin actions performed in the previous month. Data is again from 3 January 2013 from User:JamesR/AdminStats.

Year	No. promotions	% of total actions	Average actions	0 actions (%)	1-9 actions (%)	10-49 actions (%)	50-499 actions (%)	500+ actions (%)
2003	123	2.1	15.6	82.7	11.1	3.7	1.2	1.2
2004	240	1.4	5.3	82.2	9.9	5.3	2.6	0.0
2005	387	8.77	21.4	76.8	13.0	6.5	2.9	0.8
2006	353	10.2	27.0	74.0	11.5	8.8	4.4	1.3
2007	408	21.9	41.8	58.7	20.3	9.8	10.2	1.0
2008	201	7.9	28.8	52.4	19.5	18.9	7.9	1.2
2009	121	25.1	152.4	45.5	24.2	15.2	11.1	4.0
2010	75	10.9	95.0	27.5	23.2	21.7	24.6	2.9
2011	52	6.43	78.8	22.5	16.3	26.5	32.7	2.04
2012	28	5.4	115.2	21.4	0.0	39.3	35.7	3.6
2013	1	0.0	9.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Key:

• Year: Year of successful RfA.
• % of total: percentage of total admin actions during those two months which were performed by people promoted in that year.
• Average actions: mean admin actions for a current admin promoted in that year.
• Remaining columns give the percentage of current admins promoted in that year whose admin action counts fall in the given ranges.