Few organizations track Wikipedia usage. Pew has carried out a couple of surveys of American adults in recent years, listed below:
2007 http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Wikipedia-users.aspx 2007 "36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia"
Pew found that in America Wikipedia was more popular with wealthy people, white people and English-speaking hispanics, men, adults under 30, college graduates and home broadband users (obviously some of those factors correlate).
Please note that Pew doesn't survey under-18s.
Wikipedia was the most popular education and reference website by almost an order of magnitude.
"Over 70% of the visits to Wikipedia in the week ending March 17 came from search engines, according to Hitwise data."
But the web and the way people use it has continued to evolve.
2010 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx "53 percent of online Americans use Wikipedia"
'In the "scope of general online activities, using Wikipedia is more popular than sending instant messages (done by 47 percent of Internet users) or rating a product, service, or person (32 percent), but is less popular than using social network sites (61 percent) or watching videos on sites like YouTube (66 percent)."'
37% to 53% in three years sounds pretty good to me. Especially as the other 47% will include some who choose not to consult any sort of reference at all.
WSC
On 17 January 2011 03:48, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Few organizations track Wikipedia usage. Pew has carried out a couple of surveys of American adults in recent years, listed below:
2007 http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Wikipedia-users.aspx 2007 "36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia"
Pew found that in America Wikipedia was more popular with wealthy people, white people and English-speaking hispanics, men, adults under 30, college graduates and home broadband users (obviously some of those factors correlate).
Please note that Pew doesn't survey under-18s.
Wikipedia was the most popular education and reference website by almost an order of magnitude.
"Over 70% of the visits to Wikipedia in the week ending March 17 came from search engines, according to Hitwise data."
But the web and the way people use it has continued to evolve.
2010 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx "53 percent of online Americans use Wikipedia"
'In the "scope of general online activities, using Wikipedia is more popular than sending instant messages (done by 47 percent of Internet users) or rating a product, service, or person (32 percent), but is less popular than using social network sites (61 percent) or watching videos on sites like YouTube (66 percent)."'
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