User:WereSpielChequers/Post 2007

There is general agreement that since 2007 Wikipedia has changed. Retention of new editors has fallen markedly, the rate of expansion appears to have slowed. But there agreement ends, where we are divided includes:


 * 1) Is this due to competition from other sites - facebook et al with their more user friendly technology?
 * 2) Once we allow for lost edits due to edit filters have we really declined (and they "lose" us both the vandalism they prevent and the reversion of that vandalism)?
 * 3) Are unsourced edits still acceptable? "Revert unsourced" is an increasingly common edit summary, [citation needed] is seen by some as too slow. For BLPs unsourced is now a reason to delete. Some see that as a welcome increase in standards, others as a rejection of much goodfaith editing. A tird view is that fudging both views in one encyclopaeda is a recipe for newbie biting and we should either change our edit process to make clear that we require new information to be sourced,