Wikipedia has rapidly become one of the most used reference sources in the world, but a new study shows that the website's explosive growth is tailing off and also suggests the community-created encyclopaedia has become less welcoming to new contributors.
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When you count words rather than edits most of the content in Wikipedia does indeed come from contributors outside the core, but Wikipedia does have a lot in common with traditional publishing organizations.
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