@groceryheist @mako you're the only ones I can ask. Here's a plot of Chinese Wikipedia daily editors. The story here, of a community that overcame exponential growth and found stable linear growth, is mirrored in the daily edits curve (and to a lesser extent, the new articles curve; not so much the bytes added, that's been flat for many years).

My question: is this story real? Are they actually mentoring editors, growing quality, and expanding? Or is this just PRC vs ROC turf wars, or spam?