[WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

[Thomas Dalton]

On 18 April 2010 19:54, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2010, at 8:26 AM, David Gerard wrote:
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>> Wikipedia, and its community and bureaucracy, sucks in oh so many
>> ways. But it does in fact work and produce something people find
>> useful.
>
> I'm not entirely sure of this. It is accurate to say that Wikipedia is found useful by people - but I'm not sure the current community and bureaucratic structures have anything to do with why. I suspect the useful parts are unevenly distributed towards articles older than five years.

Interesting hypothesis. It is testable, too - we just need a bot to
sample a few thousand articles and compare their hits over the last
month, say, with their creation dates. I suspect you are wrong,
though, since you haven't accounted for current affairs articles and
pop culture articles which are very popular, but not for long.