James, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
It seems clear that hostility has increased. Look at this graph specifically: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desirable_newcomer_reverts_over_time.png -Aaron On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:55 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jonathan Morgan wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> I continue to maintain that editor attrition is due to the natural > >> transition from writing and completing new articles to maintaining old > >> articles, and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise or of the > >> validity of any alternative hypothesis. > > > > /me nods > > > > Sure, that's likely a huge factor. But do you really believe it's the > > *only* one? > > It's certainly the only factor that I've ever seen supported by > convincing data. A larger problem is that people continue to advance > hypotheses which are easy to disprove. For example, people frequently > say that hostility became worse after 2007. I can't see any support > for that. If you don't believe me, go to a popular controversial > article, then click "history" and "oldest" e.g. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_warming&dir=prev&action=history > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming/Archive_3#Examine_effects_of_change > > What other hypotheses can be supported by any data at all? > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
_______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
