[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[Sue Reed]

Instead of fixed number, shouldn't it be a percentage? That
way, when the wikipedia population grows - the number of
admins can grow along with it. To me, the number of
beauracrats should be along the same sort of formula. 

Sue Anne

--- Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> How many admins do we want? We have 800. Do we want 2000?
> Or do we want 200?
> 
> I suspect that until we can answer that question, most of
> our
> discussion on how hard it should be to become an admin is
> actually
> fairly pointless. Why? Because ultimately, if adminship
> is not to be a
> "reward for hard work", then it should be bestowed upon
> the top X% of
> the population, rather than every editor who has done
> good. And we
> don't know what X is.
> 
> Steve