Sage Ross wrote: > To me, the data is really encouraging. Take a look at the charts for > New Wikipedians vs. Active Wikipedians. We knew before that both of > those peaked in early 2007. But now it seems that the decline has > more or less stabilized, and the decline in active Wikipedians was > less severe than new Wikipedians. Edits per month, and maybe new > articles per month, look to be stabilizing as well. > This also was my first impression: the last 12 months have not been so bad at all. I'd like to be able to combine this with a continuing thought of mine: WP's model is beginning to "bite", in the sense that it has not proved really problematic to bring new areas of content along, and there has also been progress in upgrading lower-quality existing articles. I think both points are still somewhat debatable; but if both of these are granted in a general sense (dodging say round BLP and a few vexed areas where edit wars are still typical) there is scope for optimism.
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