Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Arbitration report
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At one point, the arbitration report was a regular Signpost feature. In 2005, the paper's inaugural year, we had one in 49 of 51 issues. Incidentally, 2005 was also the first year that there were ArbCom elections at all, and there were 12 Signpost articles covering the process. In 2006, there were 59, with regular reports as well as another series following the election process. The next decade or so had a slow decline: 58 in 2007, 51 in 2008, 2009, 2010, 53 in 2011, 37 in 2012, 29 in 2013, and only 6 in 2014, a year featuring infamously high-profile cases like AP1, GGTF, and the first couple months of the GamerGate case. Since then, there was a bit of a rebound for a couple years: there were 17 in 2015 and 15 in 2016. But we went back to just five in 2017 -- a year when there was no Signpost at all between February and June.
After that, the Signpost transitioned to monthly publication; there were eleven arbitration reports in 2018, and nine in 2019 and 2020. But we hit a new nadir in 2021, with just three for the whole year; in 2022 there were four, and last year there were six.
This year, there hasn't been one.
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