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The graph of total revisions-per-month shows: the English part of the Wikipedia is saturated: no more exponential growth
The rate of revisions has leveled off — beyond any seasonal oscillations. Considering it to be a derivative, the Wikipedia itself must now grow linearly, at best, for most volume indicators such as article count/size etc.

Method: gzcat enwiki-20080724-stub-meta-history.xml.gz | grep timestamp | perl -ne ‘/d{4}-dd-dd/ && print “$1n”;’ | gzip > enwiki-20080724-revision-dates.gz; then count entries per every month and plot

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