2009/8/16 John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no:
I would guess that the most important reason why english wikipedia is slowing down is because of the other language projects gets the attention of the editors. perhaps it would be possible to get some numbers on the total influx of content and how it is distributed among the projects?
Many (particularly, as I recall, Andrew Lih) were saying a few years ago that en:wp growth would follow a sigmoid logistic curve rather than the pure exponential curve it appeared to be following at the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_curve
- much as most other things do.
So I wouldn't call it unexpected.
The question is then where other Wikipedias are on this curve.
- d.