Another update
We only have about 26 questions to review!
Update
Due to hard work of several ask ubuntu community members and a mod or two we have now reduced the queue considerably. We are almost there!
Original Post
- Shall we try and get rid of the close vote queue to start the new year?
For quite a while it has been around 200-300 items that are left to review. Are there a few of us that want to invest some time this week to try and get it cleaned up?
TL;DR: We need more reviewers for close questions (apart from the ones already doing a good job).
Rationale
Given that 5 close votes are needed per question we need a 1000 votes in total. A rato of 20 votes per person per day we need the following number of people in the specified number of days to get rid of the persistent queue.
50 people in 1 day
25 people in 2 days
17 people in 3 days
13 people in 4 days
10 people in 5 days
8 people in 6 days
7 people in 7 days
6 people in 8 days
6 people in 9 days
5 people in 10 days
5 people in 11 days
4 people in 12 days
4 people in 13 days
4 people in 14 days
3 people in 15 days
3 people in 16 days
3 people in 17 days
3 people in 18 days
3 people in 19 days
3 people in 20 days
2 people in 21 days
2 people in 22 days
2 people in 23 days
2 people in 24 days
2 people in 25 days
2 people in 26 days
2 people in 27 days
2 people in 28 days
2 people in 29 days
2 people in 30 days
2 people in 31 days
2 people in 32 days
2 people in 33 days
1 person in 34 days
1 person in 35 days
We also need many different people so we can easily skip questions we do not feel confident about.
This does not take into account the new votes that come in every day.
- Maybe the most feasible option is to find ten people that want to jump in for five days (already doing this: Seth, Eric, Alvar, Braiam). So we'll need five more people (as I'll do my 20 a day as well).
More information
To actually get the counter to zero we need to take into account the number of questions that get flagged for closing every day. In the following calculation I assume there are about 25 questions added to the queue every day. This affects the above count as follows:
56 people in 1 day
31 people in 2 days
23 people in 3 days
19 people in 4 days
16 people in 5 days
15 people in 6 days
13 people in 7 days
13 people in 8 days
12 people in 9 days
11 people in 10 days
11 people in 11 days
10 people in 12 days
10 people in 13 days
10 people in 14 days
10 people in 15 days
9 people in 16 days
9 people in 17 days
9 people in 18 days
9 people in 19 days
9 people in 20 days
9 people in 21 days
9 people in 22 days
8 people in 23 days
8 people in 24 days
8 people in 25 days
8 people in 26 days
8 people in 27 days
8 people in 28 days
8 people in 29 days
8 people in 30 days
8 people in 31 days
8 people in 32 days
8 people in 33 days
8 people in 34 days
8 people in 35 days
Counting python script
total_votes_needed = 1000
max_votes_per_person = 20
x = 1.0
while x < 36:
# the 125 is a guess for the amount of new votes needed every day (25 flagged questions * 5 votes needed)
print int(round((total_votes_needed + 125 * x) / (x * max_votes_per_person ))), 'people in', int(x), 'days'
x += 1
- obviously moderators could speed this up
- the ideal would be to have 8 people casting 20 votes every day.
- allowing fewer people to do more votes would also speed this up
- reducing the number of votes needed to 4 would work, or, even better, use the total reputation of the reviewers as an indication.
- the 25 new flagged questions/a day rate is made up. If someone could get an actual average using an SQL query that would be nice.
