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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by bzb3 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:17PM (#23479577)
Couldn't it be said Wikipedia is basically complete? Which would explain the declining number of edits
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by saagarjha on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:18PM (#23480309)
A comprehensive encyclopedia is never complete.
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by drusepth on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:48PM (#23483090)
Never is a very, very long time.

At some point in an encyclopedia's lifetime, it's "complete enough" that you'll see an excess of authors. "Compiling the world's information" and, past that, "compiling current events as they happen" (with a side of "occasionally improving/updating old articles") need very different numbers of authors.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by exolymph on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:55PM (#23480018)
> Couldn't it be said Wikipedia is basically complete?

No.

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