On 9 January 2013 06:41, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32:
> I understand the decline is similar in other wikis
- that this is not
> at all just an en:wp problem.
> How are the numbers for the other Wikipedias? How are the numbers for
> the non-Wikipedias?
The main pattern, ie a turning point in 2007, is the
same in all projects,
and almost in all language versions of them:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
(in order of project size/pageviews; graphs don't include recent data,
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42318 )
Typically the pattern is the same across all projects in the same language.
(Almost?) all Russian projects, for instance, are an exception to decline.
This has often made people wonder if the causes are external (Facebook?
Facebook is also almost non-existing in Russia, right?).
Right. So anyone in this thread going into detail about en:wp policies
is actually not addressing this, and the problem is on a higher level?
- d.