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It seems a little misleading to have a graph with log-y values suggesting that growth has stopped because it's reaching some kind of peak. log(number of article
by aprescott 14y ago
It seems a little misleading to have a graph with log-y values suggesting that growth has stopped because it's reaching some kind of peak. log(number of articles) looking like log(t) means it might still be growing pretty linearly.
- yk 14y agoWikimedia has the numbers (some scrolling required): http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm It is recently slightly lower than linear, but by no means looking as bad as the article suggests. In fact ( reading from the plot in the Atlantic) it took Wikipedia five years (2001 - 2005) to reach 1M articles, two years for the second and roughly 1 and a half years each for the next two million. From the more detailed statistics at Wikimedia, new articles are now added at roughly 1000 a day, down from 1600 a day in 2006. [added]I just found the linear plot of en.wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnwikipediaArt.PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnwikipediaArt.PNG