Graph of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia" class="mw-redirect" title="English Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a> growth, in new articles added per month. The dark bars represent past growth rates. The light-blue bars are projected monthly rates (rough guesses) for future years. The pattern is somewhat analogous to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/negative_binomial_distribution" class="extiw" title="w:negative binomial distribution">negative binomial distribution</a>, but altered by events causing unusual changes in new-article rates. See essay: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia_extended_growth" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia extended growth">w:Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia extended growth</a>.
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2009-02-22
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