[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 82, Issue 38

[David Gerard]

On 19 May 2010 16:43, Michael Ritchey <RitcheyMT at 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.