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Improve adminscore scores
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
I would like to be able to create a list of people who might be ready for adminship, using the XTools adminscore to identify those most likely to be in need of the tools. Currently, the default numbers and categories in the tool do not align well with what it typically expected for admin hopefuls on enwiki. More suitable numbers would be the following (possibly with an if-statement for enwiki).

Activity Multiplier
Account Age (days) 1.25 > 0.15 (so that max is just before 2 years)
Edit Count 1.25 > 0.01 (so that 10k edit maxes this out)
Userpage size 0.1
Page Patrols 1 > 0.5 (so that 200 maxes this out)
Participation in AFDs 1.15 > 0.8
Recent activity (720 days) 0.9 > 0.05 (so that 2,000 maxes this out)
Participation at AIV 1.15 > 0.8
Use of edit summaries 0.8 > 1 + change to edit summary percentage
Namespaces 1 > 0.025 (maxes out at 4000)
Pages Created (live) 1.4 > delete
Pages Created (deleted) 1.4 > delete
Participation at RFPP 1.15 > 1

Other possible improvements might be a bit more time-consuming (happy to make a new phab for it)

  • Add a category for other deletion processes: the sum of edits to a user's PROD, CSD log and AfC log
  • Main page process edits: the sum of edits to ERRORS, Did you Know prep areas and In The News discussions (ITN/C)

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

  • Create a quarry with a ranking of editors based on their need for admin tools
  • Get a quick idea about readiness for adminship for someone you're vetting

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

Finding editors to vet for adminship is time-consuming. Having better tools at hand to help frequent nominators find experienced editors will hopefully allow us to find more suitable editors, and help a bit with the declining admin numbers on Wikipedia.

Event Timeline

Femkemilene renamed this task from Improve adminscore to Improve adminscore scores.
Alien333 triaged this task as Low priority.EditedSep 28 2025, 7:36 PM
Alien333 moved this task from Backlog to General / other on the XTools board.
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Adminscore is, to be frank, not a priority. What constitutes need for or readiness for adminship is extremely subjective, and (perhaps more importantly) extremely wiki-dependent. This tool is here because it was there in 2017 when MusikAnimal & co took over the project, and because some people out there want to keep it, but it should probably move to a new home if anyone really wants to take care of it. XTools is for statistics, and the idea of an "admin score" is pretty far from that (plus, we already have a lot of things on our hands (could always use some help)).

Thanks for the quick reply. This seems relatively simply, so would it be okay if I try out making a developer account and putting in a PR? Or would not not work if this tools needs migrating (which is certainly above my capability).

We're still on github (for the time being; we've been considering moving to gerrit but haven't yet), so you could just submit a PR over there if you really want to do this. (Regarding capacity, you'd be surprised how quickly one can learn.)