On 3/13/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+sof...
Draw your own conclusions. Don't bother attempting comparisons to Britannica - they don't even rate a mention.
I really don't think there are any conclusions to draw. "wiki" is obviously tied to wikipedia so of course they have risen slightly (well, that, and the fact that small wikis are becoming way popular). The other three, "open source", "free software" and "linux" are completely 100% unrelated to wikipedia. We all make a deep connection between wikipedia and those three, but the general public has NO idea that we are an off-shoot of the open source movement.
I mean, if you are the guy looking up [[Boobs]] or [[Some strange anime]] (which would be about 75% of our audience), you're not gonna care about GFDL or free software or anything similar. Our audience just doesn't make that connection.
--Oskar