2008/8/8 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Not really. While a case could be made for an article plateau (at around 100 million articles estimates vary) not for an edit rate plateau and even there we would expect growth at a level roughly equal to web growth rates.
Yeah, cos the population of editors to write the English wikipedia is growing at the web growth rate due to the lack of censorship giving them impure thoughts.
And we clearly need one article for every few English speakers. In my view participation in the wikipedia needs to be enforced by law, like jury duty, upon pain of imprisonment and with absolutely no stupid restrictions like 'notability'.
Looks like the wikipedia is going to level off at just under 3.5 million articles to me. Something Must Be Done to write 97 million articles!
-- geni