On 09/20/11 10:11 PM, とある白い猫 wrote:
Certain projects are bound to loose active contributors. Projects like Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies or even Wiktionary do not have the same growth curve as a general purpose encyclopedia. These tools have serious competition as well. Statistically looking at numbers is unwise unless you are going to look at it with a perspective. This is not to say these projects are without problem, but that doesn't mean the wikis are failures.
This is all very true. The important thing is to keep focused on your own project. If you look at competing projects, rather than looking at their usage statistics, a better question is "What are they failing to do that you could do better?"
Ray