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> in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content.

In Wikipedia's case, there are also those who destroy content.



Wouldn't vandalism be included in the 9%?


I wasn't talking about vandalism. I mean real irreversible destruction of content.


I'm not too familiar with the turmoil of internal Wikipedia politics; how/what sort of content is irreversibly destroyed given that Wikipedia pages have public versioning/history?


If an article gets deleted, it's gone.


Does anyone run a service that saves deleted articles? If not, should such a service be created?


In the past, there was Deletionpedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionpedia




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