Re: Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

David Gerard <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:18:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english
Message-ID <CAJ0tu1FPny=o_i8K4dSH3PsKC3qr7s+qSO-JK5E-3_GW-2h0xQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 14 April 2013 14:04, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

> As for the correlation of the "oh shit graph" to inclusionism/deletionism:
> A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in
> place in December 2005." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
> )
> In December 2005, there is a sharp spike in "active editors", and a sharp
> decline in 1-year retention.  I would say that is at least partially a
> direct result.


This is an interesting observation I haven't seen before. How's our
new pages handling these days? How are the patrollers coping with the
firehose of shit?


- d.

_______________________________________________
WikiEN-l mailing list
[email protected]
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l