In which year of Wikipedia's existence did it start to really attract and satisfy users? In other words, when did it hit a critical mass of good content so that users searching for information on Topic X had a reasonable chance of finding something on the site that would make them want to return as an end user rather than just a contributor who supported the site's concept?
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On 19 May 2010 16:43, Michael Ritchey RitcheyMT@familysearch.org wrote:
In which year of Wikipedia's existence did it start to really attract and satisfy users? In other words, when did it hit a critical mass of good content so that users searching for information on Topic X had a reasonable chance of finding something on the site that would make them want to return as an end user rather than just a contributor who supported the site's concept?
About 2005, that's when we really started going up the Alexa charts. (I *think* this happened before Google started indexing us top of everything, though that helped.)
- d.
A google news search for "Wikipedia" is revealing:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&hl=en&q=wikiped...
A table of google blog hits by year (easy to do) would probably be a good way to get impressions of cultural use, with scholarly and academic use following about 3-4 years after that, in the wake of that recognition.
FT2
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michael Ritchey <RitcheyMT@familysearch.org
wrote:
In which year of Wikipedia's existence did it start to really attract and satisfy users? In other words, when did it hit a critical mass of good content so that users searching for information on Topic X had a reasonable chance of finding something on the site that would make them want to return as an end user rather than just a contributor who supported the site's concept?
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