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The slowing growth of Wikipedia (part two): resistance from dominant editors
10 August 2009 | Ed Chi
Part one of this post, which shared findings on the slowing growth of Wikipedia, recently received coverage in the New Scientist, Fast Company, Business Insider/ Silicon Alley Insider, and more... In this second part, we share more details on the plateauing, more-linear-than-exponential growth rate of Wikipedia. In a nutshell: the treatment of edits from different editor classes has been widening steadily over the years -- and not in favor to the less-frequent editors. We consider this disparity as evidence of the dominant Wikipedia community's growing resistance to new content, especially when the edits come from occasional editors.
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