> In another thread, Will Johnson (I think) argued that activity levels > (new articles, in particular) would continue to decline rapidly in the > next few years and that by Christmas we would have fewer than 1000 new > articles per day. Looking at the new stats, I'm more confident that > en-wiki can maintain a steady state of activity something close to the > present level (especially as the usability efforts begin to make it > easier for newbies to edit, after years of increasingly complex markup > that did the opposite).
Perhaps rather than counting new articles, we should be looking at the amount of text added to articles? As I understand it, there's a bit of a shift going on from creating new articles to improving existing ones, and that seems like a reasonable metric to measure that from (especially if only article text, rather than templates, was counted). Of course, it's also a lot harder to calculate... Mike _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
