On 14 April 2013 14:04, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
As for the correlation of the "oh shit
graph" to inclusionism/deletionism:
A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in
place in December 2005." (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
)
In December 2005, there is a sharp spike in "active editors", and a sharp
decline in 1-year retention. I would say that is at least partially a
direct result.
This is an interesting observation I haven't seen before. How's our
new pages handling these days? How are the patrollers coping with the
firehose of shit?
- d.