User blog comment:LegoI3rickI3uilder/Debate:Amount of Admins/@comment-5084796-20130708152328

I think the number of admins we have would be good...if they were all active. Unfortunately (as we know), a lot of the admins are either inactive or not seen as frequently as some users would like. I think some of their inactivity is exaggerated by the fact they just don't go on chat as much (meaning they are not in the public eye a ton), but still, it's nice to know admins are nearby.

Suggestions:

1. Talk to all the admins and see if they want to continue being admins. Also, ask them to rate themselves on their activity.

2. If admins would not like to keep their position, replace them with more active users (but still use the same admin-selecting process). I realize this is unforseeable, so see item 3.

3. For those admins which rate themselves as inactive to semi-inactive, don't replace them, but if possible, add a couple of more admins to help supplement the team.

The bottom line is that their needs to be enough admins that there is a fairly constant presence on the wiki, and so that the work needed to run the wiki is distributed among a number of active admins, so no one feels overworked.

PS. If you can't get a hold of an admin within say...a week, they're in the inactive or semi-inactive category :P