The good folks at Slashdot posted an interesting blurb about what seems to be declining activity on Wikipedia. If these charts are accurate, then it would seem that activity has indeed taken a sharp downward trend since early ’07. Evidently, this being Wikipedia, there’s an active discussion about these stats, their accuracy and their meaning.

Regardless, it raises some interesting questions about knowledge creation, the limits thereto, and also regarding the  future of Wikipedia. Perhaps its time for a vetted, edited Version X.X., available for download. Slotting a vetted version of Wikipedia into every classroom in North America, or into the $100 laptop, would do wonders for improving access to knowledge.