[WikiEN-l] JuryBot (was: Scott McCloud on Wikipedia)

[Ray Saintonge]

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.

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