[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[geni]

2009/7/14 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
> Ian Woollard wrote:
>> It's looking to me like 3.5 million is about the plateau, since the
>> curve is bang on that, but we might make 4 million *eventually*.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth#Logistic_model_for_growth_in_article_count_of_Wikipedia
>>
> We'll know more around the beginning of 2010. In my view something is
> likely to change in the direction of people valuing lists of "missing
> articles" more, when it is clearer that drive-by creation is getting
> drossier by the month (which is what that model implies). Of course I
> can't quantify that: I know it is still easy to come up with sets of
> 1000 topics that we don't cover at all well, and the total of redlinks
> is still large.
>
> Charles

Redlinks in general perhaps. Redlinks in articles a significant number
of people actually read less so.



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geni