<quote who="James Salsman" date="Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 02:52:54PM
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My opinion is that the transition from the need to
create new
articles to maintaining the accuracy and quality of existing
articles has been the primary cause of editor attrition, and my
studies of Short Popular Vital Articles (WP:SPVA) have supported
this hypothesis.
My understanding is that we've seen similar trends in attrition across
many (but not all) language Wikipedias despite the fact that number of
articles varies quite a lot across these languages languages. Do your
studies address this issue?
Regards,
Mako
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