David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32:
On 8 January 2013 23:27, Kim Bruning<k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
I think that the requirements for a wiki (open, welcoming, anyone can edit,
eventualism) are always going to be at tension vs the requirements for an
encyclopedia (reliable, good sourcing, etc).
Right now, en.wikipedia rules are more complex and potentially more
strict than nupedia ever was, and we're running on inertia.
I understand the decline is similar in other wikis - that this is not
at all just an en:wp problem.
How are the numbers for the other Wikipedias? How are the numbers for
the non-Wikipedias?
The main pattern, ie a turning point in 2007, is the same in all
projects, and almost in all language versions of them:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
(in order of project size/pageviews; graphs don't include recent data,
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42318 )
Typically the pattern is the same across all projects in the same
language. (Almost?) all Russian projects, for instance, are an exception
to decline.
This has often made people wonder if the causes are external (Facebook?
Facebook is also almost non-existing in Russia, right?).
Nemo
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