Hi Eric,

ARD and ZDF, Germany's public broadcaster, publish an annual "Onlinestudie", a report on the usage of the Internet by people in Germany. Starting in 2006-ish, they have included questions on the usage of Wikipedia in their reports. https://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/

The question is not always the same and in some years, they asked people whether they use "online reference works such as wikipedia". In early years, Wiipedia was usually seen as a "Web 2.0" service or as one odd child in the social media family.

The usual (oversimplified) answer was that people in Germany use Wikipedia, especially the younger audiences.

On the methodology side, I have some reservations because I think these surveys never took into account the affirmative bias. Even at peak times, the idea of 5% of online users *actively* contributing to Wikipedia seemed far far off.

Mathias 

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:04 PM Eric Luth <eric.luth@wikimedia.se> wrote:

Hi all,

About a week ago, the annual report "Swedes and the Internet" of 2023 was released. It is a comprehensive report by the Swedish Internet Foundation, with a statistically representative selection of the Swedish population. The report has included Wikipedia for many years, but this year, for the first time I believe, it includes a specific chapter on Swedes' use of Wikipedia.

It would be really interesting to know if there are similar surveys and reports from other countries. I'm thinking that, if there is, it would be interesting to compile those surveys and see what general trends are similar across countries. I think that it could eventually be an interesting way of getting insights into similarities and differences in readers' use of Wikipedia. 

So I suppose my question is if you know of similar national surveys from your countries and contexts, on how and by whom Wikipedia is used?

Best,

Eric Luth

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