I found this response interesting from a person who works for Wikimedia (http://branch.com/b/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia-is-nearing-comple#was-3CT6

I found this response interesting from a person who works for Wikimedia (http://branch.com/b/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia-is-nearing-comple#was-3CT6Ooc http://branch.com/b/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia...): ...at the Foundation, we tend to call this "the Gold Rush theory" - the idea that Wikipedia's gold rush days are over. My personal view is that the problem isn't that everything is done, but that it's harder for willing new editors to find things to do. (For existing power contributors, they have no hard time finding topics, which is why overall article growth remains steady). The answer here is that the Foundation needs to work on ways to surface interesting and useful stuff to write about. Wikipedia can't afford to hope people stumble on these topics. He works on making Wikipedia's UI better in ways that encourage useful contributions, especially for new editors - see his blog posts at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/24/giving-new-wikipedians-feedback-post-edit/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/24/giving-new-wikipedians-... and http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/24/fix-this-broken-workflow/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/24/fix-this-broken-workflo... for examples.