Just a reminder that Pew is exclusive to the U.S. so that's 53% of *American
*adult internet users using Wikipedia.

Steven Walling

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org>wrote:

> On Thursday, January 13, 2011, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > "Wikipedia, past and present"
> > http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx
>
> Given how much Google juice WP has, I find it unintuitive that only "53% of
> adult internet users" "use Wikipedia to look for information". I thought
> this low number is perhaps people thinking this means they type the query
> into Wikipedia itself. Pew is always thorough, so looking for the questions
> I see [1] and infer the question was:
>
> > Thinking about your internet use overall... Please tell me if you ever
> use the internet to do any of the following things. Do you ever use the
> internet to [Look for information on Wikipedia] ? / Did you happen to do
> this yesterday, or not?
>
> ...?
>
> [1]:
> http://pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2010/May-2010--Cell-Phones.aspx
>
>
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