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Dutch Wikipedia grows like cabbage (~grows very hard)
The Dutch version of the free online encyclopeida Wikipedia as a big
succes. The website has become a fixed entree in the Visiscan top 10,
made by the reasearchbureau Multiscope. One out of 3 Dutch (country)
internet users visits it at least once each month.
6th website in the Netherlands
With a reach of 32%
nl.wikipedia.org scored a 6th position in the
Multiscope Visiscan top 250 of most visited Dutch (country?) websites.
The reach quadrupled in the last 2 years (juli 2004 = 7%)
The strong growth that wikipedia is going through is comparable with
the development history of proven internet concepts as Startpagina and
Marktplaats (dutch portalsites)
Reasons for succes
The dutch public appreciates Wikipedia with a grade of 8.1, within the
categorie Portals-guides and referenceworks, this is the highest grade
received by a site. Possible other reasons for the success of
wikipedia is the huge number of articles (220.000+) and links to the
Dutch homepage ('44.000+). For these reasons, wikipedia is deeply
entrenched in the Dutch web.
Wikipedia's succes is not a standalone story, the website is part of
an international group of websites with user generated content, such
as youtube, mysapce and flickr, all of which are also popular in the
Netherlands.
Future
Wikipedia has a lot more potential in the Netherlands, the helped
namerecognition (37%) has not yet reached it's maximum. Strong point
of wikipedia is a strong majority of people that are familiar with the
website are also visitors of the site. Within it's category Wikipedia
is the only site visitors state intentions of visiting within 3
months.
Threaths
The growth of wikipedia looks as if it's flattening in the last few
months. This is true for it's entire category however, and migth be a
seasonal trend. The visitintensity of Wikipedia, 2 visitis per
visitor/month is for now still a lot lower then for other big Dutch
sites. This (partially) causes the site to score only the 42th
position when comparing total amount of time spent on the internet.
About Multiscope visiscan
Multiscope visiscan is an online benchmark research for Dutch
websites. The research maps name recognition, reach and appreciation
of the top 1000 websites in the Netherlands. Customers can use the
results of the research to compare websites with an independant
standard. Multiscope Visiscan measures the reach via a countrywide
representatif panel and registers this groups surfing habits
continuously. Multiscope Visiscan also measures the name recognition
and appreciation on a quarterly basis within at least 10.000
respondants from it's online panel.
On 8/23/06, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/23/06, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is a subscription site, but perhaps some nl:
folks can report the
stats?
Dutch *Wikipedia* rises in site
rankings<http://www.telecom.paper.nl/site/news_ta.asp?type=abstract&id=138810>
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
The Dutch version of *Wikipedia* has proven a success, according to internet
ratings group Multiscope. One out of three Dutch internet *...
Here is the complete dutch text about this:
http://www.multiscope.nl/persbericht-volledig.phtml?uniek=20060823085833
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