# of daily editors seen on English #Wikipedia, January 2001 to December 2017—anonymous users, logged in users, then two kinds of bots.
So, lazyfediverse:
What happened 2006/2007? Was the financial collapse presaged by collapsing Wiki edit activity? Did Peak Oil trigger Peak Wiki?
(I've spent a month getting a metric ton [~1 GB JSON, converting into ~2 GB NetCDFs] of historic data from Wikimedia REST API and this is the first visualization I made. Won't be the last. https://github.com/fasiha/wikiatrisk)
Daily #Wikipedia editors active on #English, #French, #Japanese, #Russian, #Chinese, #Arabic, and #Hebrew Wikipedias.
So.
Many.
Questions.
(Um, the SVG is at https://gist.github.com/fasiha/8c6f0f0814687fdddcee43c10b5d4a8c with the full curve information, what the hell Mastodon, SVG > PNG.)
@22 who did Jimmy piss off in 2007?
@fenwick67 Definitely not the Sinosphere, nor the Arabophone, those grew through that very distinctive U-turn. I was hoping someone could tell me what happened everywhere else.
