From: DF dragons_flight@yahoo.com
I posted this question at the Village Pump last night, but it hasn't got much response (perhaps because most everyone was asleep at the time I wrote it).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#How_many_Ar...
The crux of my point is that the number of active editors in Wikipedia has grown nearly 10 fold since ArbCom was created 2 years ago, while the number of Arbitrators has remained constant at 12.
Perhaps this just means we should expand the pool of Arbitrators and elect 20 or 30 this time around as some people had proposed (though one might have trouble finding enough people to run).
I think the main issue is that the Committee can't seem to keep 12 *active* arbitrators - I think the most it's ever hit has been around 8, and typically there are only 5 or so active aribtrators.
Jay.