No, I think the problem is the impenetrable thicket of jargon and bureaucracy and the bias for deletionism.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 10:22 AM Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the reasons for less active editors is primarily because a large > part of common knowledge is already now created and being held in > Wikipedia, unlike at the start and first few years of it's existence. > > I think generally that as any knowledge base grows, such as Wikimedia, > that edits tend to be fewer as general knowledge articles are set in place, > and thus remains creating only articles that cover the long tail of > remaining knowledge. Hence, we are in a position in many of the larger > language Wikipedia's having less of a need for general article authorship, > and instead a need for creating articles that cover the long tails of > knowledge with domain experts. > > -Thad > ------------------------------ > *From:* Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 3, 2024 8:52 PM > *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Trend of number of active editor > > We have often discussed the trend of fewer active editors, and some of > us have just discussed this at nowp and swwp and one of my fellow > wikiedian has made a very interesting comparison graph where the numbers > are normalized according to number of speakers, https://puu.sh/Kg6xQ.png > > As can be seen av very positive trend on frwp and plwp and reassuring > one on enwp. Do we others have important lessons to be learnt from pl > and frwp? > > Anders > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/Y6WFUJNFNN63QGUDXVJKDK4EMU2GFUDQ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/MTN6RCBQKX2QF5MMSCSTTECE4BG4MSVB/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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