MZMcBride wrote: >... the number of non-deleted revisions per day for the > English Wikipedia. The results are here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/565971356
So, that looks terrible: http://i.imgur.com/Z9lYCWj.png It looks terrible in the same way that every other graph of active users and several other related measures look like. But it isn't. It doesn't account for the power law of practice which causes everyone who has ever edited Wikipedia to get better at it with time. And since so many IP editors are obviously returning, that means a lot more than under the false but very common assumption that every IP editor is new. Here's what really matters, articlespace size: http://i.imgur.com/TfaD99V.png The size of the article text in bytes has been marching on linearly since the beginning of Wikipedia, with extremely low variation, just like the short popular vital articles and every other measure of quality content. There is no legitimate basis to worry about anything until the linear trend of the total article bytes breaks out of its 12 year linear trend. (If you multiply columns 'E' and 'I' from http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm the database size shows a cusp at around 2006, corresponding to the growth modes, but two separate linear trends fit both modes far better than any growth model fits the entire curve.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
