The Wikimedia Foundation does not agree with the authors of articles on the outflow from the Wikipedia. Deputy Director of the U.S. branch of the foundation Erik Möller and Erik Zachte state on the pages of the blog online encyclopaedia that the number of employees in 2007 has already reached its maximum and has since remained relatively stable.

The Foundation does not dispute that the material submitted by Felipe Ortega, it was presented his results were the source of reports about network problems almanac. This question is for the test method Spaniard: Ortega included in the accounts of every author who ever introduced any change, while the Wikimedia treated as editor only person who has already released at least five of editorial operations. Ortega said about three million volunteers, the authors of the ten largest version of Wikipedia, while the Wikimedia Foundation since the foundation shall count towards all editions of just under a million authors. In the English Wikipedia in any month is 40 000 active authors, the climax was reached in March 2007, (appeared at that time 54 510 editors).
Wikimedia relies on the results of Augmented Social Cognition Research Group of the Center Palo Alto Research Center, which also examines the number of users of Wikipedia, and held steadily declining growth in all classes of users - which, however, in the context of early development is not a surprise. Nevertheless, researchers recognize the signals providing a barrier that prevents users from making editing more than 100 per month. However, researchers do not provide answers to the question whether the reason for this may be the atmosphere of work in Wikipedia.

"We do not know what the number of volunteers would be ideal for Wikipedia, but you may want to increase the number significantly - read a blog post. The Foundation carries, inter alia, an initiative to increase environmental friendliness editing, which is simplified to make changes in the articles. And new training materials should attract further encyclopaedia editors. The entire long-term strategy of the foundation is currently being discussed with the authors of the community.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales points out that the increase in the number of articles is not Wikipedia is a priority. In an interview with the British "Telegraph" Wales said: "circulates myth that Wikipedia already had a purely anarchistic, but it is simply not true." Giving an interview the other hand, a web magazine "Readers Edition", strongly denied rumors that descended from "enthusiasm, and found alarming reports as inaccurate. Wales rejects the plea of too great a bureaucracy of the project: "Wikipedia does not have to be such as Twitter or Facebook. Wikipedia is to be Wikipedia.