"David Gerard" wrote

We'll see if the S-curve in article creation (as noted by Andrew Lih) really does top off at about 2.5-3 million. Or if there's some systemic deletionism going overboard that can be corrected.

I'd expect our article totals to go through the roof as the internet rolls out into India, for example. Nearly a billion people who have English as the language of learning. How many topics are there in India?

It's the good point about this. WP's total traffic is apparently zooming ahead. Anyone who checks Alexa will see that the share of Web traffic went up 20% in July and August. That's when the college students of the Northern hemisphere are not at college, dammit! What is going on? Well, perhaps the non-English content is pulling in readers on search engines in a significant way. We may find out.

But the point is that so many readers (omigod, we could _overtake MySpace_ ?!) must tend towards the creation of more articles. I do suspect speedies have cut back article creation - Andrew probably has a point there (and A7 must still die, as so often misapplied). But an elbow in a curve can be misinterpreted, also.

Charles

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