There's no great drop in the number of editors: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ENglish_Wikipedia_active_users_%28September_2011%29.png
The number of new articles appearing has been dropping, but it looks like we're just running out of things to write about- the rate of decrease of new articles is much more than any reduction in editors. The number of editors is fairly static, although there were about 25% more people volunteering in 2006 when there were lots of new things to write about. On 16 May 2012 19:41, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > And why haven't they taken those who generalise broadly from a single > > example with them? > > Are you denying the general decline in editors, even as Internet usage > continues to increase? > > -- > gwern > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
