We do have a systematic bias that leads us to under-represent Africa, and anywhere else where secondary sources are sparse. But otherwise I believe the blogger is misinformed. Our page views aren't flat, they are growing faster than the average for the Internet. And while the number of new articles per day is below our peak, that isn't the main area of improvement in Wikipedia, we already have over 4 million articles, most of the editing and much of the new content is to maintain and improve the articles we have. This is an inevitable transition in a growing project, at the beginning all articles had to be started, now in many topic areas the main need is for article improvement.

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On 11 October 2012 09:21, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

http://joeldmitchell.com/?p=17

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