User talk:Hut 8.5/indef blocks 2

Indefinite block percentage

Nice graph! Image:Wikipedia indef block percentage.png. Not sure, though, whether this means much when you consider that most of the increase in the indefinite blocks could be due to sock-puppets and the like. What I really want to see is some way of seeing how many edits each blocked account had made at the time it was blocked. This would involve checking to see if the account is still blocked. Some of the accounts may have been recycled (not sure when, or if, that started happening). This would help yield an idea of how many editors got blocked with a large number of edits. These will invariably be the community banned editors. I also note that there was a large increase in the number of blocks from around October 2005. You also excluded the unblocks - I think unblocks might be interesting. Some will be routine unblocks, but the real point would be to try and find out how many of the indefinitely blocked accounts were later unblocked. In other words, numbers for how many accounts with 1000+ edits have been indefinitely blocked (or wherever the crossover point is between large numbers of accounts with few edits and small numbers of accounts with lots of edits), with a check to exclude those who were later unblocked. Until someone comes up with a way to generate that data, this will have to do, and it is much appreciated! Thanks, again. Carcharoth (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I can get it do do unblocks, that isn't hard. It should also be possible to work out how many accounts were unblocked later. Doing edit counts it a bit too hard for me though, but I could get it to see if the blocked editor had ever been listed on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits (and if they have a very high edit count that will catch them). Hut 8.5 07:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I've updates this using data from the more recent database dump. I've also added a few more search strings, statistics on unblocks, and the number of indefinite blocks that were overturned. I got the program to produce a list of overturned indefinite blocks, and lots of them are actually because the blocking admin had made a mistake, to change the block settings, because the IP blocked was no longer an open proxy, and other trivial reasons. Hut 8.5 14:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Wider audience

Would you mind if I posted links to this page in a few places to get more comments? Carcharoth (talk) 23:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Fine by me. Hut 8.5 07:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)