BBC reports results of study that wikipedia "lost" 49,000 editors in the first 3 months of 2009

BBC reports results of study that wikipedia "lost" 49,000 editors in the first 3 months of 2009

I'd be interested to know people's thoughts on this report and how it might be relevant to our task:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8379566.stm

Netmouse‎23:43, 25 November 2009

To help out, you can find a link the study and Wikimedia interview with the guy who made it here. It might shed some more light on the problem, the causes, and the solutions.

Randomran‎00:34, 26 November 2009
 

How many people lost their jobs/businesses/homes - and regular access to a computer? Pl-ease!

Shir-El too‎20:51, 19 January 2010
 
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