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There's a moment, when you're losing this kind of game, that you realize you don't have the resource generation needed to drive growth, or even to maintain what you have. The orc armies are moving in, and you don't have enough manganese to make Armoured Infantry II. So you lose those wheat fields you do have to the orcs, and now you have even less resources, which gives you even less optionality for defence or growth.

I like playing video games and board games with an economic component. In these games, you build farms or factories or mines or whatever, and they generate resources that you can use to build armies or research centres or monuments, which in turn let you build more farms and mines and so on.

@DrPen @pizaaman It really is. Did you try googling for "Wikipedia decline", or are you just going to go by your personal experience of the product itself?

@anime_reference Wikipedia edits depend on page views. People edit the the pages when they read something that's untrue, clumsy, or misspelled. If they don't get page views, they don't get edits.

Wikimedia Foundation revenue depends on page views. People donate to Wikimedia when they land on a Wikipedia page with a donation request banner. If there aren't page views, WMF doesn't get donations.

Page views are a very big deal for Wikimedia.

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@evan @pizaaman I didn't notice Wikipedia in decline at all. Maybe this is a north American thing, or Chrome user thing. I turn off all ai summary stuff as its not good or reliable enough. Wikipedia is always my first check. Wikipedia is vital in many parts of the world.

@evan I'd suspect it would all trace back to the oil industry, if it is possible to find a trail at all. I hope they're on it.

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