As content goes up it drives edits up. New content needs edits in order to reach peak accuracy and it’s more to maintain.
More edits does nothing to drive new content, so it does not go both ways.
Total content logically goes up in most scenarios or most of the time, but if it goes up slower than usual you would see a decrease in the amount of edits.
They are also not saying “if edits go up content must have gone up.” They’re saying “if content goes up, it tends to increase the amount of edits.” They actually specifically say this doesn’t work the other way.
Hardlyhorsey t1_jaujgll wrote
Reply to comment by inactiveuser247 in [OC] Wikipedia Edits by Day, 2001–2010 by ptgorman
As content goes up it drives edits up. New content needs edits in order to reach peak accuracy and it’s more to maintain.
More edits does nothing to drive new content, so it does not go both ways.
Total content logically goes up in most scenarios or most of the time, but if it goes up slower than usual you would see a decrease in the amount of edits.
They are also not saying “if edits go up content must have gone up.” They’re saying “if content goes up, it tends to increase the amount of edits.” They actually specifically say this doesn’t work the other way.