the pool of highly active editors is making one-third fewer edits now
than in 2007
Wikipedians who contributed 100 times or more in this month
Mar 2012 3429 down 34% from Mar 2007 = 5190
Wikipedians who contributed 5 times or more in this month
Mar 2012 34,372 down 36% from Mar 2007 = 54,074
I think the once-active editors are running out of new things to
write about. That is a sign of maturity, I suggest. Wikipedia is not
a fast-growing teenager any more. ~~~~
>A random sample, or something systematic?
I've started with major wars (WWI, WW2, American Civil War, War of
1812, 30 years war, Napoleonic wars, War of 1812; and generals
--Napoleon, Washington, Eisenhower, etc.) because they seem to
involve both very high reader interest and the strength of many
editors. Is there a current list of the 100 or 1000 most viewed
articles? I'd like to work from that. ~~~~
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In this issue:
1 Recognition may sustain user participation
2 Can Wiktionary rival traditional lexicons?
3 Wikipedia as an academic publisher?
4 Wikipedia citations in American law reviews
5 One in four of articles tagged as flawed, most often for verifiability issues
6 Time evolution of Wikipedia discussions
7 APWeb2012 papers on admin networks, mitigating language bias and finding "minority information"
8 Briefly
9 References
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