[Foundation-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia

[Marc Riddell]

on 10/9/07 8:30 PM, Milos Rancic at millosh at gmail.com wrote:

> <snip>
> 
> The problem which may raise is lack of enough educated people for
> doing more complex operations with the content. It may lead into
> decline of the community and impossibility to deal with vandals.
> 
> So, I think that the next step of WM aims should be community
> education. But, this is one of the open questions of our community.
> And I still don't see any organized project toward this goal.

Milos,

What do you mean by community education?

Marc Riddell

> 
> On 10/10/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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