Wiki-snooze?

An article at The Atlantic notes how Wikipedia is having trouble recruiting and keeping new editors for its online articles.

As its major articles become more and more settled -- meaning that someone comes along and removes some of the stupider stuff that some idiot wrote -- there is less and less for editors to do. Sure, new things crop up and there are plenty of older books and movies and whatnot that can be written up and refined, but apparently the people who do that aren't the people who act as the volunteer editors for the site.

My guess is that it's no longer the newest shiny internet toy, so nobody wants to play with it anymore. Ephemera begets and attracts ephemera. Plus, some of those articles are longer and longer, which is almost like reading a book and who wants to do that in our brave new world?