I know this is a subjective metric but when was wikipedia in it's prime? Seems like sometime in the past decade there was a mass sweep of edits on articles tha

I know this is a subjective metric but when was wikipedia in it's prime? Seems like sometime in the past decade there was a mass sweep of edits on articles that stripped out a lot of detailed information for the sake of being a more pure "encyclopedia" and in a more abstract language. The best data point I can provide is 2004, when a self aware article was created reflecting the emerging game like behavior of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMORPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMOR...