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WikiSym 2009 Paper: The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Authors: Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli (Palo Alto Research Center) (United States) Abstract: Prior research on Wikipedia has characterized the growth in content and editors as being fundamentally exponential in nature, extrapolating current trends into the future. We show that recent editing activity suggests that Wikipedia growth has slowed, and [...]

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