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

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 18:06:03 UTC 2007


Or maybe they are spending more time editing policies ... Or perhaps
they learned to use preview more often... Or maybe they've taken to
editing templates, or doing normal edits via socks or....

It's usually a mistake to draw specific conclusions from general data.



On 10/10/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A different thing here is that the number of admin edits per day has
> > decreased. I think that is an alarming sign for the english Wikipedia?
>
> Yeah, I noticed that. I'm not sure what it means. Do we have a graph
> of admin actions per admin per day for the same time period? Perhaps
> admins are just spending more time mopping up and less time editing.
>
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