On 10/10/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Dismissal of your conclusions and evidence is not the same as rudeness. A little faith? Are you kidding me? Broad claims such as the ones you make are not something I take on faith, and in case you've forgotten, AGF doesn't apply to statistical data. You're the only person that I've seen to date suggest that involvement in en-wiki is waning.
A number of Wikipedians have pointed out the changes (starting around a year ago) that en-wiki has gone through:
Among others, see: http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/09/10/two-million-english-wikipedia-artic... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/06/28/wikipedia-plateau/ http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2007/03/watershed-in-history-of-wikipedi... http://original-research.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-wikipedia-approaching-barri...
I actually found Robert's conclusions much less surprising than he did (perhaps because he is just back from an extended break, while I and others have been watching this happen for a while).
-Sage