[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"David Gerard" wrote

> We'll see if the S-curve in article creation (as noted by Andrew Lih)
> really does top off at about 2.5-3 million. Or if there's some
> systemic deletionism going overboard that can be corrected.
> 
> I'd expect our article totals to go through the roof as the internet
> rolls out into India, for example. Nearly a billion people who have
> English as the language of learning. How many topics are there in
> India?

It's the good point about this. WP's total traffic is apparently zooming ahead. Anyone who checks Alexa will see that the share of Web traffic went up 20% in July and August. That's when the college students of the Northern hemisphere are not at college, dammit! What is going on? Well, perhaps the non-English content is pulling in readers on search engines in a significant way. We may find out.

But the point is that so many readers (omigod, we could _overtake MySpace_ ?!) must tend towards the creation of more articles. I do suspect speedies have cut back article creation - Andrew probably has a point there (and A7 must still die, as so often misapplied). But an elbow in a curve can be misinterpreted, also.

Charles

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