On 4/1/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
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.
Last month bureaucrats on en changed user rights 35 times, 22 of them by Cecropia.
Last month bureaucrats on en renamed users 97 times, 62 of them by NichalP.
There is, so far as I know, no evidence of a backlog for either activity.
Seems like we don't need any more bureaucrats, and likely won't for quite a while.
There are 862 admins, 267 of which performed no administrative actions during the month of March. I do have a list. :)
It's my impression that the 596 active admins (there is one admin, Chuq, who did nothing in March but has used administrative rights at least once in April) are more than we need, and in fact we could stand to lose 100 to 200 of them without any serious impairment.
Kelly