On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Manfred A. Reiter <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/8/2 Rob Weir <[email protected]> > >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> [...] > >> >> I poked around and found this page: >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Statistics >> >> This lists some additional roles (with counts) >> >> Administrators (26) >> Bureaucrats (4) >> Editors (20) >> Reviewers (5) >> >> Those are in addition to 35,020 User accounts. >> >> Curiously, it reports only 5 of the 35,020 users as having been active >> in the past 7 days. >> > > > did you poked around 1 year ago as well? > do you have an explanation, why these numbers are slowing down? > > with the statistic above you don't increase the credibility ... > > or > > http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de/Veroeffentl/Monatshefte/essay.asp?xYear=2004&xMonth=11&eNr=11 >
One of the biggest mistakes I made when I moved into my house was to design in my back yard a huge garden. It took a weeks of labor to get it started. But I never had time to maintain it. I created a garden far too large for my small "community" (my wife and I) to handle. We fought back the weeds, but the weeds won in the end. I would have been better off with house plants, in pots. More sheltered. But also easier to take care of. With the wiki, if we really want to allow anyone to have write access to it, then we really need to be committed to fight the weeds, which in the case of wikis would be spam, low quality content, edit wars, etc. If we can re-establish the community participation level the way it was a year ago, then great. It would have a chance of success. But right now I see almost no activity on the wiki. 35,000 user accounts, but no users. If this doesn't change, the weeds will surely win. > cheers > > M. > > > M. >
