Arbitration statistics
Arbitration Committee hearing fewer cases; longer decision times
Trendlines illustrate a decline in the number of opened cases and longer times to decide a case since January 2008. The y-axis in the top graph is in days.
An analysis of
Arbitration Committee records since January 2008 suggests two important trends. The number of public cases opened each month has been on a steady decline, with small spikes at the beginning of each new term of incoming arbitrators. At the same time, cases are taking longer to reach a final decision, with the most complex seeming to be resolved in the middle of the year. These trends could be of great importance to the future of dispute resolution on Wikipedia.
