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

[FT2]

A google news search for "Wikipedia" is revealing:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&hl=en&q=wikipedia&cf=all

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 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?
>
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