Following up on Fabian's suggestions, I put together a lit review
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_use_of_free_online_information_resources/Related_work>
last year of the use of Wikipedia by a few different populations (focusing
on students), which includes the Head and Eisenberg paper.
- J
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Flöck, Fabian <Fabian.Floeck(a)gesis.org>
wrote:
I do not know of directly measured social or
economical impact, but there
are at least some indicators of the dependency on Wikipedia as a free
information source for modern societies and professions, maybe that helps:
• A. Head and M. Eisenberg. How college students use the web to
conduct everyday life research. First Monday, 16(4), 2011. ISSN 13960466.
URL
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/ index.php/fm/article/view/3484. For
decision making: “...turning to search engines and Wikipedia almost as much
as they did to friends and family”
• K.-S. Kim, E. Yoo-Lee, and S.-C. Joanna Sin. Social media as
information source: Undergraduates’ use and evaluation behavior.
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
48(1):1–3, 2011.
• J. Beck. Doctors’ #1 source for healthcare information:
Wikipedia. The Atlantic, 2014. URL
http://www.theatlantic.com/
health/archive/2014/03/doctors%2D1%2Dsource%2Dfor%
2Dhealthcare%2Dinformation%2Dwikipedia/284206/.
General population:
"As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on
Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about
Wikipedia usage in February 2007". (
http://www.pewinternet.org/
2011/01/13/wikipedia-past-and-present/ ; sadly, there doesn’t seem to be
a newer version of that poll available)
42% used Wikipedia at least once a week in 2016 in Germany:
http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/index.php?id=559 (n=1508 German
speakers, representative for the German population) and it has been
increasing quite steadily from 2007 (20%) until 2013 (32%)
http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/fileadmin/Onlinestudie/PDF/Eimeren_
Frees.pdf , page 7 (“zumindest einmal wöchentlich”), for “at least
sometimes” it’s up to around 70%
Best,
Fabian
On 24.01.2017, at 23:19, Aaron Halfaker
<ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts. Are there
any
studies quantifying them? Maybe increased scientific literacy? Or
maybe GDP rises with access to Wikipedia?
Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected
economic or
social issues?
I'm looking for any references you've got.
-Aaron
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