Statistical decline Reported, Long awaited demise of Wikipedia at hand? Options

[nobs]

The Foundation list is in a tizzy. Internal statistics for the English Wikipedia have not been compiled since October 2006. Independent analysis shows the activity of the Wikipedia community appears to have been declining during the last 6 months. New users are off 30%

Having absorbed traffic from all previous contenders, we are running up against an insurmountable wall.... That very traffic that we absorbed is no less than the unwashed masses...

[blissyu2]

It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate

[nobs]

It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate

60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins. Like that's news. We always knew you had to be a member of the club.

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[guy]

60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins.

How do you know what they look like?

there were other things that happened during that timeframe too - like the whole BADSITES brouhaha, Citizendium, and the totally unfair re-banning of User:Blissyu2, each of which probably caused at least 200,000 WP users to quit in disgust and revulsion.

And of course the banning of Poetlister and friends, who were making over 50% of the best edits.

[jorge]

60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins.

How do you know what they look like?

Duh

[nobs]

60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins.

How do you know what they look like?

Duh

From memory, of 1300 Admins, 600 are under 18 (one of which was the surrogate who extended my block). According to Newsmax, a RS, WP:V source,

Aside from Bauder, the average age of an Arbitration Committee member is around 22. The committee, and the 1,000 or so administrators who enforce their rulings, appear to include a disproportionate number of high school and college students.... Jimmy Wales, has explicitly stated that he doesn't make any distinction between the contributions of an Ivy League professor and a bright 16-year-old...

I'm not even gonna try to guide where the discussion goes from here....

[thekohser]

I'm not even gonna try to guide where the discussion goes from here....

Well, I'd like to say that shortly after the Essjay scandal cracked, I noted a perceptible decline in financial contributions to the Foundation. I graphed it and everything. Later, I discovered that one huge single-bunch donation (WP:SBD) kind of threw off my numbers. Various Wikipediots were laughing at my entire premise.

"Essjay is just a tiny blip on the radar that will be forgotten in a matter of weeks, if not days," they said. (I paraphrase.)

Oh, how the worm turns now, eh? More data with February 2007 marking a high-water point.

I rest.

Greg

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[Firsfron of Ronchester]

I'm not even gonna try to guide where the discussion goes from here....

Well, I'd like to say that shortly after the Essjay scandal cracked, I noted a perceptible decline in financial contributions to the Foundation. I graphed it and everything. Later, I discovered that one huge single-bunch donation (WP:SBD) kind of threw off my numbers. Various Wikipediots were laughing at my entire premise.

"Essjay is just a tiny blip on the radar that will be forgotten in a matter of weeks, if not days," they said. (I paraphrase.)

Oh, how the worm turns now, eh? More data with February 2007 marking a high-water point.

I rest.

Greg

Can you update the graph, Greg? It's hard to tell, but it looks like daily donations are back up to over $2,000 a day, with last month being one of the biggest donation periods since Wikipedia started keeping these records. Fundraising link