On 4 April 2012 17:55, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder, how much of the early editing (first 2-3 years), was on news topics?
Probably relatively little because there weren't many editors and those that were were concentrating on copying other encyclopedias.
How much was on historical topics?
It's likely that's nearly all of it.
ANd has that changed over time?
If you go through the articles that are being created now, a lot of them (maybe a bit under 50% or so) couldn't have been started back when Wikipedia started, because they rely on events that happened since that point.
So there's two things, there's the 'catch-up' of legacy info which peaked around 2006 and is now well into decline and then there's the ongoing maintenance of adding new stuff (this probably finished ramping up around 2006 due to the influx of new editors and should be pretty flat since the number of editors isn't decreasing very much.)
Carcharoth