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
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
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
