[WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

[David Gerard]

On 14 April 2013 14:04, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> As for the correlation of the "oh shit graph" to inclusionism/deletionism:
> A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in
> place in December 2005." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
> )
> In December 2005, there is a sharp spike in "active editors", and a sharp
> decline in 1-year retention.  I would say that is at least partially a
> direct result.


This is an interesting observation I haven't seen before. How's our
new pages handling these days? How are the patrollers coping with the
firehose of shit?


- d.