There will always be both fluctuations in activity (in part dependent upon "topics in the news" and other incentives to do something) and individual declines in participation (once one has "seen to" most of the articles one is interested in).
However - trawling through 'list of articles from (insert date)' (as with several of the Open Task lists) can be time consuming. Would it be feasible to create something similar to the Random Plot Generator [1] - which finds 'several' articles requiring improvement under particular categories? Jackiespeel (talk) 15:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)