On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Gwern Branwen gwern@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.