“The end-user experience is being preserved, and the people behind the scenes are bearing the cost.”
Administrator numbers dropped from about 1,800 in 2011 to just over 800 now, while the article count climbed to 7 million. The 20 million blocks in the record show the strain. Rationales get vaguer, blocks get longer, and rehabilitating new editors stops being worth the time. Every AI company on the planet trains on this work for free and funds none of it.