Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Queue/Stack Ordering/reply

I certainly  understand the function  you  are describing. However, we have to consider that  very  few volunteers actually  do  a 'session'  in  the way  tasks would be allocated  in  an office environment. Even I, who works from a home office, often spends hours on end at  NPP, relish  the freedom to  dodge around the site doing  things such  as working  my  own articles and doing  other random  editing, admin tasks,  and doing other Wikipedia project  work. When doing NPP people stop  to  discuss issues with  each other such  as for example today's conversation - we may  even have a quick  video  chat  to  discuss some particularly  difficult  issues. To that  there is the freedom of doing  anything  else in  RL  that  comes along.

The same applies to the way  we work for example at  OTRS - and that's why  I  suggested a system  similar to  ticket  enquiry  software solutions. When you want, you  grab  a page and then it's blocked for you  until  you've dealt  with  it. Nevertheless, we must not  forget  that  we rarely  have more than 7 patrollers working  at  any  time at  the front, and perhaps one or two working  at  the back  of the queue. Other people pop in  and simple patrol a page or two  on  the fly. And that's for around 1,000 pages a day. When it's night time there  in  the US, I'm  often the lone ranger -  and that's when pages are flooding  in  from India,  Asia, the Philippines, and Australia/NZ.

We need more patrollers, and ones who  know how to  do  it,  but  it's most  definitely  not  a task  that  appeals to  everyone.

A useful tool  developed by  Snottywong clearly  shows how this works.