[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Ian Woollard]

There's no great drop in the number of editors:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ENglish_Wikipedia_active_users_%28September_2011%29.png

The number of new articles appearing has been dropping, but it looks like
we're just running out of things to write about- the rate of decrease of
new articles is much more than any reduction in editors. The number of
editors is fairly static, although there were about 25% more people
volunteering in 2006 when there were lots of new things to write about.

On 16 May 2012 19:41, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > And why haven't they taken those who generalise broadly from a single
> > example with them?
>
> Are you denying the general decline in editors, even as Internet usage
> continues to increase?
>
> --
> gwern
>
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-Ian Woollard