Pownce Back
This entry was posted on 07-12-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.
Andrew Lih and Kelly Martin have been blogging about the Pownce situation. I think Torsten's comment on Lih's blog said something important, words to the effect that "X" amount of articles need "Y" amount of editors to maintain them. This seems reasonable. Lih has also noted that Wikipedia's (WP) article growth is flattening. I'd like to get a measure on the growth of editors.
Let's say the deletionists are worried about there being too many articles for them to manage. One answer is to delete articles where possible. Another answer is to get new editors, more growth. I think I can say that generally a deleted article means the loss of a fraction of an editor. What that fraction might be is anyone's guess? If you delete 10 of my articles, do I quit?
An extreme deletionist, would tend to entrench WP, and scare off new editors. Maybe some people think that WP has reached its destination. Its growth phase is over. I'd say, keep going.
