WIKIPEDIA Zooms Ahead

 

According to Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, Wikipedia's share of U.S. Internet visits placed it at number 13 in the Hitwise Education - Reference category at the beginning of 2004. However, by the week ending April 16, 2005, Wikipedia's total Internet share of visits skyrocketed by 618 percent, making it the second most visited reference website overall.
Steve Outing, at the Poynter Institute E-Media Tidbits has posted his analysis of Wikipedia's Traffic Up. He says:

I'm not surprised. What seemed at first to many of us a crazy idea -- an open encyclopedia written and edited by anyone who feels like contributing -- has turned out to have affirmed the wiki model as a legitimate and important publishing orce.

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