Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang <nettrom(a)gmail.com>om>:
Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the Wikipedia
community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality assurance
processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content coming in
with the exponential growth around 2004–2005 also end up discarding
good-faith contributions. This highlights the problem of how to do quality
assurance while also being a welcoming community to newcomers who are
struggling to learn all of Wikipedia's various rules and conventions (see
also the Teahouse paper).
I think we need to start recommending it with a short explanation on
current trends and mention that it describes a piece of Wikipedia history
(where the mechanics behind the trend could still be relevant). You see the
same curve in a number of other languages (especially languages mainly
spoken in northern Europe), and like English they've typically flattened
out, English already around 2014, other number of languages with a similar
trend around 2018, yet we can still read that the Wikipedia editorship is
in decline in the present tense in papers and articles on English Wikipedia
published in 2020, referencing The Rise and Decline.
//Johan Jönsson
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