You might want to use WikiTrip for getting a visual grasp about the
number of edits received by a page over time.
For example, this is the WikiTrip for First World War (non cumulative)
http://sonetlab.fbk.eu/wikitrip/#|en|First_World_War|0
look at the chart on the top of the interface
Hope it helps.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Richard Jensen <rjensen(a)uic.edu> wrote:
I am looking at the edit history of a number of major
articles on historical
topics (in the English Wikipedia)
I find that most of the important writing was done in 2006-8. Typically, the
article reached maturity about 2008 and since then the rate of editing has
plunged. In most cases I see only minor or maintenance editing since then.
The new material since 2008 is mostly cosmetic: illustrations still get
added, lots of links are made, new categories added, new lists are appended,
vandalism is removed. The citations are increasingly out of date. The
articles are long in tooth.
Wiki is now resembling the old paper encyclopedias--they would get old fast
and need constant updating either through yearbooks or new editions.
Richard Jensen
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