Thread:Talk:New Page Triage/Triage Principles section/reply

Makes sense - particularly  about patrollers not  doing  their best  if they  know their work is going  to  be checked anyway -  but there are other issues.

It may  be better  to  avoid hierarchic  patrolling for several  reasons. To mention  but  a few:
 * Currently on en.Wiki there are on  average never more than about  8 users patrolling pages, and this is not  enough  to  cope with  the flow of  1,000 - 1,500   new pages that  arrive every  24 hrs.
 * Most of the 8 or so patrollers do  not  carry  out all  the checks that  are required.
 * The frequency of mis-tagging, and marking  pages as patrolled that  should be tagged (or even deleted) is too high.
 * A significantly high percentage of new pages are from  developing and/or non-English  speaking  countries and they  arrive when the US and most  of Europe is asleep.
 * There are even fewer admins on 'deletion  duty' at  any  one time.There to  my  knowledge only  very  few admins residing  in  those time zones. There are periods ere in   Asia when I  can barely  keep  up  with  the actual  deletion  of pages that  can be uncontroversially  and summarily  deleted, as they  arrive.
 * To ensure the retention  of new users, pages need to  be processed as soon  as possible (not  as quickly  as possible)
 * Some kinds of toxic pages need to be deleted extremely  rapidly

Possible solutions would be to:
 * Create a user right for patrollers. This would attract  more users to  the task  of patrolling  pages, because as one commentator above put it 'people are power whores'.
 * Ensure that those who  want  to  be page patrollers are given adequate training. (Carrot-n-stick  principle)
 * Currently the only  part of page patrolling  that  needs the intervention  of an admin is the actual  deletion. There could be a feature to  flag an article for a  second opinion. This may  also  help  reduce the 30-day  backlog. It's the closest  I  think  we could get  to 'multiple view patrolling'

A detailed survey of patrollers is currently  taking  place, and we hope to  publish some data in  a couple of weeks.