Just a reminder that Pew is exclusive to the U.S. so that's 53% of *American *adult internet users using Wikipedia.
Steven Walling
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2008@reagle.orgwrote:
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, phoebe ayers wrote:
"Wikipedia, past and present" http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx
Given how much Google juice WP has, I find it unintuitive that only "53% of adult internet users" "use Wikipedia to look for information". I thought this low number is perhaps people thinking this means they type the query into Wikipedia itself. Pew is always thorough, so looking for the questions I see [1] and infer the question was:
Thinking about your internet use overall... Please tell me if you ever
use the internet to do any of the following things. Do you ever use the internet to [Look for information on Wikipedia] ? / Did you happen to do this yesterday, or not?
...?
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