Editing Wiki (section)

=== Growth factors ===

A study of several hundred wikis in 2008 showed that a relatively high number of administrators for a given content size is likely to reduce growth;<ref>{{cite journal | title = Measuring wiki viability. An empirical assessment of the social dynamics of a large sample of wikis | publisher = The Centre for Research in Social Simulation | first1 = C. | last1 = Roth | first2 = D. | last2 = Taraborelli | first3 = N. | last3 = Gilbert | year = 2008 | page = 3 | quote = Figure 4 shows that having a relatively high number of administrators for a given content size is likely to reduce growth. | url = https://nitens.org/docs/wikidyn.pdf | url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171011105517/https://nitens.org/docs/wikidyn.pdf | archive-date = October 11, 2017 | df = mdy-all |website=nitens.org }}</ref> access controls restricting editing to registered users tends to reduce growth; a lack of such access controls tends to fuel new user registration; and that a higher ratio of administrators to regular users has no significant effect on content or population growth.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Measuring wiki viability. An empirical assessment of the social dynamics of a large sample of wikis | publisher = The Centre for Research in Social Simulation | first1 = C. | last1 = Roth | first2 = D. | last2 = Taraborelli | first3 = N. | last3 = Gilbert | year = 2008 | url = https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk:80/1565/1/fulltext.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120616204038/https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1565/1/fulltext.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date = June 16, 2012 | access-date = November 9, 2018 | df = mdy-all |website=Surrey Research Insight Open Access }}</ref>