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

[Milos Rancic]

The same was happened between November 2004 and January 2005. Does
anyone remember what was going on then? Only server limits or
something else?

On 10/10/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not surprising, considering the increasing restrictions on new
> article creation, the ossification of the adminship process, and the
> aggressive influence of those who prefer deletion of stubs to creation and
> those who prefer massive, multipage articles to multiple discrete entries.
>
> 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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