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

2010-05-19 Thread 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

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

2010-05-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 May 2010 16:43, Michael Ritchey 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 so

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

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Ritchey
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