2009/7/20 Michael Peel <[email protected]>: >> 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...
"edits per article" is the best statistic we have for that at the moment (and it's fairly steady). Once we have a full dump we'll be able to get better statistics. I don't know what the timeframe for that is, but I understand it is being worked on. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
