The amateur web phase ended within its first decade

Evidence

The success of The Huffington Post and of Lonelygirl15 and the celebrity gossip sites was something of an early sign that even by the end of its first decade, the amateur phase of the web was already coming to an end. Wikipedia reached its peak of 51,000 active editors in 2007, and from that point onward began to shed contributors; by 2013 it would lose more than 20,000, never having expanded beyond its committed core of young men with time on their hands. Across the web, one sensed a general waning of enthusiasm, as if the air were escaping from the balloon. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 965

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that volunteer-driven platforms peak then shed contributors — Wikipedia at 51,000 editors in 2007 then losing 20,000 by 2013 — is a pivotal data point for understanding the decay of the amateur attention commons and the rise of platforms.
• XREF: connects to: The amateur blogger had largely vanished by the end of the 2000s — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 972

Broader Connections

• The amateur blogger had largely vanished by the end of the 2000s #corroborates (0.82) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 972