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

[The Cunctator]

Oh, come on! Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry on Agate type.

Oh wait, it used to, but it got deleted.

On 10/9/07, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> Those are great stats, thanks for your work! I'm not surprised to see a
> decline, personally. The internet is not infinitely big. Having absorbed
> traffic from all previous contenders, we are running up against an
> insurmountable wall; namely, yahoo, google, microsoft, myspace and
> facebook.
> Considering we generate a significant portion of traffic from search
> engines, it seems unlikely that we will pass the top five or so for the
> foreseeable future. That very traffic that we absorbed is no less than the
> unwashed masses, not all of which are content to satisfy their information
> need and move on. They feel the need to also take the "edit this page"
> offer
> as advertised, 20% of the time leaving the encyclopedia dirtier than when
> they found it. We can only hope that the thrill of being able to do that
> wears off by the time the next generation comes through.
>
> On 10/9/07, 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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