[WikiEN-l] AFD 100 days

Sun Sep 18 22:37:20 UTC 2005

Well, since keepable articles shouldn't end up on AFD to begin with
the number of delete votes don't really surprise me. The amount of
votes the top 5 provide are stunning, though. I really wonder how they
read all those articles they're voting on and still have time to do
other stuff.

--Mgm

On 9/19/05, DF <dragons_flight at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Having tired of listening to arguments about what goes
> on at AFD but having little data, I decided to engage
> in a little experiment to analyze voting patterns at
> AFD.  I wrote a computer script to parse over 100 days
> of AFD logs and compile a variety of statistics by
> looking at the bold faced terms (eg. keep, delete,
> merge, etc).
> 
> Obviously this is imperfect since AFD is suppose to be
> about discussion and consensus building (somehow
> despite somehow having 100 noms and 875 votes cast a
> day), but it is good enough to reveal some interesting
> patterns.  For example, I would not have guessed that
> on a forum with 7200 participants over 100 days that
> the top 5 would account for 10% of all votes.  Or that
> for all articles with 2/3 of the votes cast favoring
> deletion, only 6 would also have 10 or more keep
> votes.
> 
> However, I am not all that surprised that regulars
> cast delete votes 76% of the time whereas occasional
> participants (the vast majority of all voters) say
> delete only 56% of the time.
> 
> The full listing of statistics compiled so far can be
> seen at:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD_100_days
> 
> Things are still somewhat preliminary as I may yet try
> to further improve the parser and the last three days
> of my AFD sample have not entirely closed, but I doubt
> those things with substantially change the patterns.
> 
> Anyway, I hope this provides a better grounding for
> some of the endless discussions about what to do with
> AFD (and whether or not it has serious problems).
> 
> -Dragons flight
> 
> PS. I need to get back to real life now, so if there
> are questions/requests/complaints, it will probably be
> several hours or a day before I get back to respond to them.
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