[epivosism]

That matches what I would expect. My normal continuation would be to look at the growth from 2014 til now in global internet users, and at the competitors like youtube, insta, etc. I'd expect to find that many of these sites grew 100 or 1000x, and that the global online population whose device power and internet service levels surpass some threshold has also grown by at 10x since then.

Those are all assumptions and memories from working during that time period - possibly wrong, would look up if you disagree. But if you don't, then my conclusion would be that staying flat during a period like that - when you could have grown and supported a deep, new, persuasive trend of literacy, fact-based reasoning and understanding, education and compromise - is a huge failure.

[yorwba]

There were 2.79 billion internet users in 2014 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users?... so the number couldn't have grown 10x because there are no 27.9 billion humans yet. The latest data is from 2020, so maybe it's at least 2x what it was in 2014.

Most of those new internet users are in Asia and do not use English as their primary language. If you look at editor counts of other Wikipedia editions; Hindi https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/hi.wikipedia.org/contributing/... , Indonesian https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/id.wikipedia.org/contributing/... , Thai https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/th.wikipedia.org/contributing/... , Persian https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/fa.wikipedia.org/contributing/... kept growing after the English Wikipedia saturated.