Usage statistics alone, I would agree with you.
But stats can tell so much more than just what you get from usage stats.
For instance:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm (be
sure to scroll all the way to the right).
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
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
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