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

[Anthony]

On 10/10/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A different thing here is that the number of admin edits per day has
> > decreased. I think that is an alarming sign for the english Wikipedia?
>
> Yeah, I noticed that. I'm not sure what it means. Do we have a graph
> of admin actions per admin per day for the same time period? Perhaps
> admins are just spending more time mopping up and less time editing.
>
"Article deletions, blocks, protections and uploads have all decreased
in recent months."

What about edits to the meta namespace?  Has drama increased or
decreased in the recent months?  Anecdotally I'd guess increased, but
what do the numbers say?