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According to a report published in 2009 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the number of active editors working on the English Wikipedia is declining. As the figure 1 below suggests, the number of active editors (editors with >= 5 edits/month) abruptly stopped growing in early 2007 and entered a steady, linear decline. Recent research has shown evidence that this transition is rooted in the declining retention of new editors, not a change in the retention of already-experienced old-timers (Suh, 2009).

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current12:54, 25 October 2013Thumbnail for version as of 12:54, 25 October 2013500 × 187 (21 KB)Robin (talk | contribs)According to a report published in 2009 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the number of active editors working on the English Wikipedia is declining. As the figure 1 below suggests, the number of active editors (editors with >= 5 edits/month) abruptly stopp...
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