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

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nobs   Statistical decline Reported   Wed 10th October 2007, 4:07am
blissyu2   It also seems that their rate of unproductive edit...   Wed 10th October 2007, 4:17am
nobs   It also seems that their rate of unproductive edi...   Wed 10th October 2007, 4:47am
guy   60% of "normal edits" are made by pimpl...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:08am
jorge   [quote name='nobs' post='53811' date='Wed 10th Oc...   Wed 10th October 2007, 12:18pm
guy   [url=http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html...   Wed 10th October 2007, 1:01pm
jorge   [url=http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.htm...   Wed 10th October 2007, 1:22pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='guy' post='53854' date='Wed 10th Oct...   Wed 10th October 2007, 2:33pm
nobs   [quote name='guy' post='53841' date='Wed 10th Octo...   Wed 10th October 2007, 6:38pm
thekohser   I'm not even gonna try to guide where the dis...   Wed 10th October 2007, 7:07pm
nobs   I'm not even gonna try to guide where the di...   Wed 10th October 2007, 7:30pm
Firsfron of Ronchester   [quote name='nobs' post='53888' date='Wed 10th Oc...   Sat 13th October 2007, 5:01pm
thekohser   Can you update the graph, Greg? It's hard to ...   Mon 15th October 2007, 2:05am
KamrynMatika   It also seems that their rate of unproductive ed...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:16am
JohnA   [quote name='nobs' post='53811' date='Wed 10th Oc...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:52am
Kato   The Foundation list is in a tizzy. Internal stat...   Wed 10th October 2007, 5:10am
Somey   That's a rather mean thing for Mr. Flight to ...   Wed 10th October 2007, 5:18am
the fieryangel   That's a rather mean thing for Mr. Flight to...   Wed 10th October 2007, 8:52am
Castle Rock   hmm, I wonder what happened to ED's stats dur...   Tue 16th October 2007, 3:25am
Somey   Looks like they got three big ones last month, one...   Sat 13th October 2007, 6:05pm


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