I sent my primary message to wikien-l but I think the issue is important
enough to warrant general awareness from the Foundation.
I have recently compiled a new statistical analysis of the English Wikipedia
independent of the "official" stats that have been offline for the last
year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis
The surprising conclusion is that the rate of article editting on the
English Wikipedia has actually been declining during the last 6 months.
-Robert Rohde
aka Dragons_flight