Michael Noda wrote:
This is not to say that these admins aren't doing their jobs. Indeed, Charles Matthews and Mindspillage are both in the first screenful of 0.00% admins, and both are quite busy enough with more important things than deletions. :-) However, there might be plenty of admins (and non-admins, for that matter) who wouldn't mind doing a few deletion-related tasks a week, even if (especially if?) they don't want to focus on deletion full time.
What might work is to have a process similar to jury duty: have a registry of volunteer admins who are assigned a very small, manageable number of tasks randomly by bot once per week. This would clear backlogs, and take a lot of the pressure off the current top workers to clear backlogs. Anyone who screws up, of course, would be stricken from the list of volunteers in minor cases, or could face desysopping in cases of flagrant error.
I don't even think that the random assignments. A lot of the people who might do a few without becoming hyper look at the RfA questions, and quickly decide that it's not worth it to put themselves through that process. The other problem with random assignments is that unlike the hypers many of these people will refuse to work on subjects that they do not understand.
Ec