[WikiEN-l] Pew surveys, 2007 and 2010

[WereSpielChequers]

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 at 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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