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

Wed Oct 10 17:58:25 UTC 2007

This is not surprising, considering the increasing restrictions on new
article creation, the ossification of the adminship process, and the
aggressive influence of those who prefer deletion of stubs to creation and
those who prefer massive, multipage articles to multiple discrete entries.

On 10/9/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I sent my primary message to wikien-l but I think the issue is important
> enough to warrant general awareness from the Foundation.
>
> I have recently compiled a new statistical analysis of the English
> Wikipedia
> independent of the "official" stats that have been offline for the last
> year.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis
>
> The surprising conclusion is that the rate of article editting on the
> English Wikipedia has actually been declining during the last 6 months.
>
> -Robert Rohde
> aka Dragons_flight
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