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An observation about Wikipedia

Steve Bennett

13 Mar 2007 13 Mar '07

5:59 a.m.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so… Draw your own conclusions. Don't bother attempting comparisons to Britannica - they don't even rate a mention. Steve

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Oldak Quill

13 Mar 13 Mar

9:52 a.m.

On 13/03/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so… Draw your own conclusions. Don't bother attempting comparisons to Britannica - they don't even rate a mention.

It seems odd that Basque was the top language Google performing these searches. -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

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James Farrar

1:57 p.m.

On 13/03/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/03/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so… Draw your own conclusions. Don't bother attempting comparisons to Britannica - they don't even rate a mention.

It seems odd that Basque was the top language Google performing these searches.

That's not calculated in absolute terms: http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#4

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Oskar Sigvardsson

11:05 a.m.

On 3/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so… 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

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Andrew Lih

11:17 a.m.

It is interesting the slow rise of "wiki" after Wikipedia has introduced the term to the public. What I find more amusing is comparing "wikipedia" and "porn". Looks like Wikipedia's caught up with porn in 2007! More interest in Wikipedia, or less interest in porn? You decide. :) -Andrew (User:Fuzheado) On 3/13/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so… 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Ray Saintonge

6:18 p.m.

Andrew Lih wrote:

It is interesting the slow rise of "wiki" after Wikipedia has introduced the term to the public. What I find more amusing is comparing "wikipedia" and "porn". Looks like Wikipedia's caught up with porn in 2007! More interest in Wikipedia, or less interest in porn? You decide. :)

Observations: The one place where "wiki" is a more popular search term than "wikipedia" is Japan. In the cities where Wikipedia is most popular only Helsinki has a rival porn score. The top 6 porn consuming cities are all in the United Kingdom. The places where Jesus is more popular than Wikipedia are Spanish speaking These are also the places where Jesus is more popular than porn. Ec

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Oskar Sigvardsson

6:58 p.m.

On 3/13/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: <snip>

These are also the places where Jesus is more popular than porn.

Dark places, evil places! Do not go there, children, for you will be eaten alive by werewolfs! --Oskar

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Jossi Fresco

11:11 p.m.

On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

The places where Jesus is more popular than Wikipedia are Spanish speaking These are also the places where Jesus is more popular than porn.

Fascinating... -- Jossi

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Steve Bennett

11:21 p.m.

On 3/14/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote:

On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

The places where Jesus is more popular than Wikipedia are Spanish speaking These are also the places where Jesus is more popular than porn.

Fascinating...

Well, Jésus is a Spanish first name. Steve

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Steve Bennett

12:32 p.m.

On 3/13/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

The other three, "open source", "free software" and "linux" are completely 100% unrelated to wikipedia. We all make a deep connection

There is a steady downward trend for linux, while "free software" and "open source" are really flat. So you could perhaps argue something like the open-source, free Wikipedia succeeding despite no overall trend towards open-source, free things. Or equally, that Wikipedia's success is not helping the open source movement in general. Or something. Steve

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Anthony

14 Mar 14 Mar

4:42 p.m.

On 3/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia%2C+wiki%2C+open+source%2C++free+so…

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22brian+peppers%22%2C%22jimmy+wales%22%2Cbr…

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Andrew Lih
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Ray Saintonge
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