On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern(a)gwern.net> wrote:
My own
impression was that the debates were never resolved so much as the
inclusionists driven out. Just look at the editor population numbers
from the last 9 years, since 2006, or look at the article growth
rates. Has the Foundation succeeded in keeping the editor population
from dropping (never mind growing, or growing as fast as the
Internet)? I've tracked some of the public goals and they've failed
entirely.
IIRC, some key inflection points on the "oh shit graph" match up fairly
closely with the elimination of article creation by "anonymous" users.