Gracenotes wrote:
Andrew does make several very thoughtful arguments about the probable cause, but I think that the real reason for decline in the rate of growth is this:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html
A pity nobody had any plans to monitor and analyze the results of this "experiment" back when it was initiated. Or, for that matter, any time since then.
If experimentation was really the point, how about we finally re-enable anon article creation and see whether the article creation rate changes again?