[Foundation-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia

Wed Oct 10 02:47:20 UTC 2007

BTW, I see that German Wikipedia is close to the same limits, too. If
someone make some statistics of other projects (for example, for
projects with more then 1.000 users), I think that we would be able to
see the same tendencies. There are only a small number of Wikipedias
which are able to make further exponential growth in the sense of user
activities: Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian... "Popular limit" of
English Wikipedia is much higher then, for example, a "popular limit"
of Serbian Wikipedia.

On 10/10/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > Those are great stats, thanks for your work! I'm not surprised to see a
> > decline, personally.
> [snip]
>
> Hey! In what kind of new-speak is a *daily* *increase* of 140,000
> somethings or 2,000 somethings, or 7,000 something a *decline*?
>
> The headline should instead be "The rate of something is lower than
> its all time peak!" or "First derivative of a non-exponential function
> turns out to be flat!" ... :)
>
> It's the truth that the character of EnWp's growth has changed in the
> last year. I think Milos' comments up-thread were pretty intresting.
> ... but I think it's really misleading to look at these numbers and
> say "decline".
>
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