[WikiEN-l] How many Arbitrators should we have?

Thu Oct 6 16:41:22 UTC 2005

>From: DF <dragons_flight at yahoo.com>
>
>I posted this question at the Village Pump last night,
>but it hasn't got much response (perhaps because most
>everyone was asleep at the time I wrote it).
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#How_many_Arbitrators_should_we_have.3F
>
>The crux of my point is that the number of active
>editors in Wikipedia has grown nearly 10 fold since
>ArbCom was created 2 years ago, while the number of
>Arbitrators has remained constant at 12.
>
>Perhaps this just means we should expand the pool of
>Arbitrators and elect 20 or 30 this time around as
>some people had proposed (though one might have
>trouble finding enough people to run).

I think the main issue is that the Committee can't seem to keep 12 *active* 
arbitrators - I think the most it's ever hit has been around 8, and 
typically there are only 5 or so active aribtrators.

Jay.