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Wikipedia's quality under threat by territorial editors

5 August 2009

WIKIPEDIA’S explosive growth seems to be tailing off and new contributors are finding it hard to edit existing articles. This could lead to a decline in the quality of the encyclopedia.

So says .

The English language Wikipedia has grown to almost 3 million articles since it was launched in 2001, but the number of new articles added every month peaked at 60,000 in 2006 and has declined by about a third since then. The number of edits made every month and the number of active editors…

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