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 after that, in the wake of that recognition. FT2 On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michael Ritchey <ritche...@familysearch.org > 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 something on the site that would make them want to return > as an end user rather than just a contributor who supported the site's > concept? > > > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you > are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and > destroy all copies of the original message. > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l