On 2/20/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It's entirely unclear what is being advocated. I'm seeing long invective-filled posts that tell me to go look for examples to support the ranters' positions myself, but no actual case examples. And let me remind you I'm one of the ones who thinks RFA is utterly broken and we probably need about twice as many admins.
The numbers I've seen suggest otherwise. Assumeing the number of hyperactives amoungst the new crop stays constant the increase needed is probably going to be closer to 50%. This converstation has been short on stats. Lets have some:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/deleterlist
Gurch was running a bot which messes the figures slightly but I think it is safe to say that ~45 admins handle ~50% of the deletions
In the top ten of those figures we appear to have lost 3.
Your 100% increase figure is more in line with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Actionsperadmin.png
Which appears to show ~100% increase in actions per admins although with various bulk deletion and semi automation tools I don't think a 100% increase in admin power is required.
I can't prove it but going by those figures I suspect we have between 150 and 200 hyperactives who do most of the admin tasks (probably towards the 150 end)
Juding by the backlogs and the burnouts I'd tend towards the position that the hyperactives are maxed out. The upshot of this is that unless we can find more hyperactives or get more of the long tail to join the hyperactives we are going to have problems.
Lowering the standards on RFA is meaningless unless you can show we will get more hyper actives rather than more paper admins.
Increaseing the activity level of the long tail is the other option but no one appears to have any ideas on how to do this (ok we could try to start admin action countitis but people tend to object to that suggestion.