> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Thomas Dalton > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm just going by the statistics, I'm not making any judgements based >> on anything else. At the moment, we seem to be following a logistic >> curve which levels out at around 3.5 million articles in around >> 2013-14. (It's asymptotic, but it will be pretty much there by then.)
Is there any data on changes in the percentage of work spent on adding new material vs. undoing damage to existing material? I'm thinking not only of vandalism, but "clueless edits": people posting religious evangelism, pushing pet theories, adding bogus facts to make their country/city/whatever look more significant than it really is, replacing good writing with bad writing, etc. Hypothesis: The more good material there is, the more human effort it takes to keep it from getting degraded. So, nearing the asymptote, most serious Wikipedia editors may end up spending most of their time doing reverts. An unpleasant thought. Ben _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
