36% of online American adults use Wikipedia. In winter 2007, 8% of online Americans used Wikipedia, according to a Pew Internet survey.
Pew Internet Survey Findings
Key findings of the Pew Internet survey include:
- For the week ending March 17, Wikipedia's share in "Top 20 Educational and Reference Websites" category was 24.33%
- Wikipedia is #1 external site visited after Google's search page
- Wikipedia has 5.3 million entries
- 1.6 million of Wikipedia's total entries are in English
- For the week ending March 17, 70% of the visits to Wikipedia came from search engines
- 44% of online Americans ages 18-29 use Wikipedia to look for information.
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The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. [source]
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