On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Sue Reed wrote:
Instead of fixed number, shouldn't it be a percentage? That way, when the wikipedia population grows - the number of admins can grow along with it. To me, the number of beauracrats should be along the same sort of formula.
The number of bureaucrats should rise according to the amount of bureaucrat work required. Since bureaucrat work consists of user renames and admin promotions, then it's the rate of growth of admins, and not the number of admins, that should affect that.
Likely, the need for admins grows, not according to the number of users, but according to the rate of bad article creation and vandalism.
I propose that new bureaucratships be opened only when there is a need for them in terms of there being more admin promotions than the current bureaucrats can attend to in a timely fashion. At this point we calculate how many bureaucratships we need and have a competitive process to fill those slots.
Perhaps adminship can be done the same way.