Wikipedia project 'losing contributors in record numbers

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Looks like people are waking up to  who is really behind Wikipedia. - ADL and friends.

Funny how the censorship goons work so well containing dissent on wikipedia and then fail so badly when it comes to maintaining standards on goy entertainment like T.V. and video games.

More proof these people have a talent for destroying and sucking the life and creative forces out of anything they get involved with. (except for new weapons, new fraud methods, and new lies / deceptions etc. In those areas they are the unsurpassed masters of creativity. E.g. Nuclear weapons, Usury, HoloHoax)

Wikipedia project 'losing contributors in record numbers
http://www.independent.ie/business/tech ... 53185.html
By Alastair Jamieson
Wednesday November 25 2009

Wikipedia is losing tens of thousands of volunteer editors a month, according to a study that suggests the pioneering spirit of the collaborative encyclopaedia is in decline.

The research found that in the first three months of this year the English-language version of the site suffered a net loss of 49,000 contributors, compared with a loss of about 4,900 during the same period last year.

Such contributing editors are vital to the integrity of Wikipedia, which relies on volunteers to create pages and check facts.

The study, conducted by Felipe Ortega at Libresoft, a research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, analysed the editing history of more than three million active Wikipedia contributors in ten different languages.

Mr Ortega told The Times: "If you don't have enough people to take care of the project it could vanish quickly. We're not in that situation yet. But eventually, if the negative trends follow, we could be in that situation."

The research suggests editors are leaving the site in record numbers and that the downward trend would continue.

However, the popularity of Wikipedia remains strong and it remains the fifth most popular website in the world.

The project founder, Jimmy Wales, who began it in 2001 as an experiment, has spoken of how the site is now focused on accuracy.

Wikipedia has recently come under fire for a series of new measures which would enable a core group of volunteer editors to adjudicate on any changes made to a living person's Wikipedia before those modifications were published.

Designed to prevent vandalism and embarrassing inaccuracies, such as the premature declaration of the death of US Senator Edward Kennedy, the new measures, known as "flagged revisions", have been criticised for slowing down the process of gathering and sharing of online information.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that finances and runs the website, acknowledges the decline in the number of editors but argues the encyclopedia remains useful.

Some experts argued that the pioneering ethos of early Wikipedians had faded. "They don't feel the spirit of the first years," Mr Ortega told the newspaper. "The articles are very tightly controlled by others now, and that makes it hard to jump in and contribute."