Personal Statistics - June 2008
Posted by shadow575 on July 2, 2008
Here are some probably useless numbers regarding how my month panned out in June. It wasn’t an overtly productive month for me, but I was able to accomplish a few more things on my list.
Editor Accounts
I tried to focus on dealing with Editor issues such as new joins, reinstates, abuse, etc last month. For the month my numbers were:
- Reinstated 9 editor accounts, no denied reinstatements.
- Joined 2 new editors, rejected 6 new applications for editor accounts.
- Accepted 4 editor new permission requests, denied 0.
- Granted new category access to 2 editors based on their editing experience and interests.
- Wrote one Dashboard Feedback to an editor and unfortunately had to participate in removing one editor account. [Note updated to clarify that no single Meta can remove any editor's account]
Overall I accept about 15% of the new account applications I review and over 80% of the new permission requests I review. Those numbers really are meaningless though. New account applications I reject are almost always easy rejections, those applications with serious problems such as being incomplete or categories being far to large for a trainee. My new permissions requests are usually fairly straight forward and easy accepts are generally easily picked out of the list too. With new permission requests, there is also edit history available to make a decision much easier.
Actual Editing
Honestly didn’t have a lot of time to edit in June, between being sick, swamped at work, and family engagements my free time was pretty well tied up. I did manage to get in and do some work though.
- Only made a total of 97 edits for the month.
- 30 of my edits were additions to the directory.
- 23 edits resulted in deleting or unreviewing sites from the directory.
- The rest of the edits were quality control issues, either fixing titles, descriptions and URL’s or moving sites to better locations and new sub-categories.
July isn’t looking much better, as far as being very busy with real work and family engagements. I will be mostly away most of the first part of the month, and the second part will likely be very busy at work. Not sure if I will be more or less productive than June. Still working at it though, even if not getting a whole lot accomplished.
July 2, 2008 at 11:07 am
New permission accepts are certainly very easy to do, and extremely satisfying.
This is precisely why the less-than-acceptable ones languish in the queue for so long. It requires a lot more time and feedback and follow-up to deal with them appropriately, so if only editors would read and follow the excellent advice in the guidelines and other resources, they would find it much easier to get accepted for wider permissions. But it seems that no matter how often this advice is given, it is often ignored.
BTW with regard to “unfortunately had to remove one editor account.” … In view of common and widely publicised misconceptions, it may be worth reminding readers that removing an editor’s account is not something any meta editor can do on his/her own.
July 2, 2008 at 12:06 pm
makrhod thanks for pointing out that bit of confusing text. I have amended the post to reflect that message.
July 3, 2008 at 3:04 am
Such is the life of an editor…we have all had up and down months. I think I’ve only done a few hundred adds in the last two months…but this too shall pass.
July 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm
OK… I’ll play.
Personal Statistics June 2008
* Keys lost - 4
* Forgot name of guy I was talking to - (I forget)
* Sons who dyed hair fluorescent green - 1
* Contents of trash across kitchen by dog - 4
* Dogs with perfect imprint of boot on backside - 2
* Horses ridden that’d be better employed holding together model airplanes - 1
* Editors hired - a bunch
* Editors removed - none
* Forum posts “kfandered” - all
* New puppies - 11
* New grandkids - 1
* Days enjoyed the whole process - 30
July 9, 2008 at 3:11 pm
hope you are feeling better now….