[WikiEN-l] Who monitors Wikipedia?

[Steve Summit]

geni wrote:
> On 01/03/2008, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>>> Overworked admins who think "must save the universe, bugger the
>>> newbies" are an ongoing public relations disaster.
>>
>> Not to disagree with the conclusion, but why are they overworked?
>> Do we not have enough of them?
>
> The total number isn't relevant. Most admin work is done by a small
> number of very very active admins maybe about 10% of the total admins
> at any given time.

My first question stands: why are they overworked?