@groceryheist @mako you're the only ones I can ask. Here's a plot of Chinese Wikipedia daily editors. The story here, of a community that overcame exponential growth and found stable linear growth, is mirrored in the daily edits curve (and to a lesser extent, the new articles curve; not so much the bytes added, that's been flat for many years).
My question: is this story real? Are they actually mentoring editors, growing quality, and expanding? Or is this just PRC vs ROC turf wars, or spam?
@22 Thanks for your great questions!
I haven't looked closely at Chinese Wikipedia so I can't speak to it directly. It's very interesting that they have stable linear growth. And I would like to know more.
One important fact that doesn't get emphasized in the paper is that there is a /lot/ of variation between wikis. The average trend is consistent with RAD dynamics, but I wouldn't claim it is universal.
@mako anythinng you want to add?
Another thing to keep in mind is that we are looking at active editors (who make at least 5 edits each month).