On 8/23/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
What about "semi-adminship"? The power to block, delete, and view deleted articles, but not to unblock, undelete, edit while blocked, or edit while protected?
Maybe the block power could even be time limited.
Where are the biggest backlogs that make more admins necessary in the first place?
None. Current requirement for admin actions could be trivialy met by existing admins. In practice it is met by a group of less than 100.
11K actions would get you into the top 50 most active admins of all time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Misza13/admin_actions
Snapshots over a shorter time period show an even more extream patturn of a small number of admins carrying out most of the admin actions.
We don't /need/ the majority of existing admins as admins.