[WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl

[David Gerard]

On 11 December 2010 10:49, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> You weren't wrong about that, in the sense that the twittersphere has
> attracted (at leas some of) those mostly driven by instant updating.
> Leaving an adequate but hardly overmanned reference utility that is
> actually used by tens of millions daily to look things up. We appear to
> have avoided the death spiral, and it is even possible that a somewhat
> smaller workforce that had higher median clue was what the project needed.


Our edit rate is about *half* what it was in 2005 - across all
projects, not just the huge ones.[1] This suggests it's something
about the Internet, not us.

Coincidentally, I understand that the number of active users on
LiveJournal is half what it was in 2005.

The usual site blamed is Facebook, which is the place where Internet
humanity goes to babble rubbish about nothing in particular at each
other. LJ is currently working really hard to enhance its usefulness
as a satellite of Facebook.

Suggestion: you know the Wikipedia mirroring on Facebook? Ask for a
link: "See a problem with this article? _Fix it!_"


- d.

[1] citation needed