[WikiEN-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia Community

[Andrew Gray]

On 10/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well if you look further down the analysis page, the rate of article
> > deletion has also been declining.  By contrast, article creation is flat or
> > somewhat positive (depending on how long an interval one uses to estimate
> > the trend).
> >
> I'd imagine there must be a bump in a lot of these numbers at the time
> unregistered article creation was turned off.  Have you seen anything
> on that one?  (I don't remember when that happened, I'll look it up
> for you if you want).

Roughly speaking, the beginning of 2006.

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- Andrew Gray
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