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Is Wikipedia heading for bust? Scientists Search for Answers
- gjm11 17y agoThe evidence, supposedly, is that the number of edits per unit time and the number of editors active in any given month have levelled off. This, supposedly, indicates that Wikipedia might be "in decline". In other news, it's been several years since my height increased, but I'm not planning to get fitted for a coffin just yet. There's some less stupid commentary on the change in Wikipedia's editing patterns at http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2009/07/part-1-slowing-growth-of-wikipedia-some.html http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2009/07/part-1-slowing-growth-o... (by the same researcher whose findings prompted the fastcompany article; this is linked from the bottom of that article).
- bitwize 17y ago"Is Wikipedia heading for bust?" "How America Will End" What's next, news.yc -- wouldn't-the-world-be-such-a-wonderful-place-if-all-humans-suddenly-vanished speculative stories upmodded to hell, as on Reddit?