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?