Wikimedia Product/Perspectives/Scale/Communities

Summary
The Foundation is currently working on features designed to bring more people into our communities. What will all of these new residents need in order to find their place, and what does the existing community need, to deal with this influx of new strangers? The population of English Wikipedia has famously dropped since hitting a peak ten years ago, going from a high of around 28,000 active editors in 2007 down to about 15,000 by 2013. It's remained more or less consistent since then, which may suggest that this is the number of people that the current structure of the site can support.

White Paper
[link to paper coming soon]

Resources
Jane Jacobs, 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities,, Random House. William H. Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center, 1988, University of Pennsylvania Press.