Chad schreef:
There is definitely a size difference between NL and EN. I'm not one to minimize 380k-ish articles, which is a very noble achievement; however, there is a noticeable difference between the sizes. A magnitude of about 5 1/4 times difference, give or take. That's 5 times as many articles. Does enwiki have a force of editors willing to read every single edit to every single article? Sustainable?
It's worse than that: the last 500 main space entries on Recent Changes cover about 4 minutes, while the last 500 main space entries on Recente wijzigingen date from the last 2 hours. That's a factor 30 difference in editing speed.
On the other hand, enwiki has about 1400 administrators, and nlwiki only 86. Since patrolling would not only be done by admins, I've also looked at the number of active users. Unfortunately, the most recent figures for enwiki are a year old, but we had about 4,300 editors with more than 100 edits per month, and nlwiki had only 267.
So we have 30 times the workload, against 16 times the workforce. So the difference per editor is not that much higher, and you cannot conclude from the numbers alone that it wouldn't work here.
Eugene