[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia has 97 per cent of online encyclopedia market

[Keith Old]

G'day folks,
E-consultancy claims that Wikipedia dominates the online encyclopedia
market.

http://econsultancy.com/blog/3185-wikipedia-has-97-of-the-encyclopedia-market-online


*Online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia has a massive 97% share of
internet visits among the top five reference websites, highlighting the
amount of work that rivals like Britannica.com have to catch up.*

Britannica.com announced some new Wikipedia-style community
features<http://econsultancy.com/blog/3176-encyclopedia-britannica-takes-a-page-from-wikipedia>
last
week as it attempts to make up some of the ground lost to Wikipedia.
According to stats from
Hitwise<http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2009/01/britannica_20_wikipedia_gets_9.html>,
it currently has just 0.57% of US internet visits to the encyclopedia
category.

Other reference sites like MSN Encarta and Encyclopedia.com also trail way
behind Wikipedia, but Britannica.com comes bottom in this category: (More in
story)

Regards


Keith Old