QUOTE(cookiehead @ Wed 11th January 2012, 8:12pm)
But wow I do notice that Wikipedia articles appear to be frozen in 2008. Did the Wikiverse come under a 28 Days type Zombie attack since then? Virtually every article I read goes through this cycle:
2005: created (often out of spite)
2006-2008: Violent Clashes of Creativity in Editing
2009: Eventual acceptance and placement of "this article sucks because of <tag here>"
2010-2012: Zombiehood
You are correct. I've done intensive statistical analysis of 200 random articles, and discovered that the addition of actual information to them peaked out in 2009, and is now dropping. Instead of actual edits that add information, admins and fanboys are using bots to pretend to edit articles, by thrashing them with minor reformattings, cross-wiki linking, and other crap.
And more to the point, they lie about it, and deny any such process.