On 02/08/2012 05:20 AM, Pavel Tkachenko wrote:
On 08.02.2012 2:52, Platonides wrote:
At the beginning, the interesection was huge even
if ability to edit
was low, just because there was a lot of knowledge missing. So as
the knowledge increases (eg. linearly) "people" appear to be more and
more stupid for editing.
This is well put. Perhaps this calls for RTFM but were
there studies
that have examined the trend from this POV?
Pavel, I asked Oliver Keyes, and he said that
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newbie_reverts_and_article_length may
be of interest. He's not on this list, so if you have thoughts about
that, please cc him.
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Wikimedia Foundation