User:Winner 42/Wikipedia Quality Over Time

In September of 2015 an issue was raise on the talk page of User:Jimbo Wales how the quality of Wikipedia changes over time. I intend to complete a moderately formal investigation to determine to what degree the quality has changed over time. My basic methodology is to use Special:Random to find 400 random articles and then assess them using the Quality Scale to determine the quality of the article at present, one year ago, five years ago, and ten years ago. I will also record the traffic of the article in the past 30 days to see if quality improvement correlates to readership. For the purposes of this assessment, lists and other special pages will be discarded.