Guest Post: Is Wikipedia Dying?

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This interesting analysis comes from Damien Hoffman, Editor-in-Chief at Wall St. Cheat Sheet.

Like Leonardo DiCaprio’s getaway in the movie The Beach
, Wikipedia started as a user-generated utopia and has recently been plagued by infighting and tyranny. We dug a deeper to see if the maturing web giant has been affected. Here’s what we found:

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According to Quantcast, Wikipedia’s traffic has been making lower highs and lower lows. In trading, that’s the definition of a downtrend. Google Adplanner confirms the trend:

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Is the world’s largest open-source encyclopedia losing steam? Is it truly open-source? Where will the chips fall as the Wikipedia Gestapo quarrel over power?

Find more of Damien’s work at Wall St. Cheat Sheet.

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  1. John Cohen's Gravatar Comment by John Cohen on December 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    I’m sorry, was that supposed to be an article? All you did was write 9 sentences, 3 of which were questions you made no attempt to answer… the other 6 being almost total fluff, and show a couple of pictures. This feels more like a 4th grader’s book report… one that gets a, “D”.

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