--- El lun, 23/11/09, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com escribió:
De: Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com
I didn't see any of the graphs from the piece or any conclusions in the thesis which are equivalent to the statements made in the Journal, so this must be new research.
Hi, Steven.
I'm Felipe Ortega the author of the numbers and graphs you're mentioning.
Yes, these are recent updated results of our long-time research line about the Wikipedia community. They were firstly presented at WikiSym 2009, and before that on a coference in the Web Science Lecture Series, at Georgia Tech (both on last October).
As always, I just want to state that, even though the numbers doesn't seem really good for the sustainability of the project in the long term, I struggle daily to fight against fatalist claims or headlines speculating about the end of the project.
Wikipedia just entered a new phase. Our responsibility (as long-time Wikipedia researchers) is to find out the causes (not necessarily negative, please read a PDF summarizing a recent electronic interview for the Strategy plan, at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interviews) and prevent any possible problems as much in advance as possible.
As usual, I'm at your disposal for any comments/clarifications.
Best, Felipe.
Steven