On 27 May 2010 23:38, Matt Jacobs <sxeptoman...@gmail.com> wrote: > My guess is that it's because the bureaucracy has become too intimidating. > I suspect many editors do not want to commit the time and effort to learning > it all.
All guesswork is a fruitless exercise, in the absence of any data on precisely why less people are joining Wikipedia than in years gone by. I get the feeling that Wikipedia is in a better place in 2010 than we were in, say, 2007. And with some promising developments (I don't just mean usability initiative and all that, though that's definitely a nice treat for our readers), I'm not inclined to start muttering darkly about the Doom Of Wikimedia. That said, the administrative workload on Wikipedia has gone up of late. But a probable effect of that could, ultimately, be causing us to scale back our project's paperwork and bureaucracy as sysop time becomes scarcer. AGK _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
