Is Wikipedia Dying?

By Damien Hoffman

December 07 2009 Email

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Like Leonardo DiCaprio’s getaway in the movie The Beach, Wikipedia started as a user-generated utopia and has recently been plagued by infighting and tyranny. We dug a deeper to see if the maturing web giant has been affected. Here’s what we found:

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According to Quantcast, Wikipedia’s traffic has been making lower highs and lower lows. In trading, that’s the definition of a downtrend. Google Adplanner confirms the trend:

wikipedia2 Is the world’s largest open-source encyclopedia losing steam? Is it truly open-source? Where will the chips fall as the Wikipedia Gestapo quarrel over power?

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Anupam

The demographic statistics are interesting... You can see its very useful for people over 12 and all income distributions.

http://www.quantcast.com/wikipedia.org
Charlie Liebenberg

Maybe Google and Microsoft should both support the site financially. Wikipedia is almost always listed at or near the top of most search results on Google or Bing.
Damien Hoffman

Very cool idea.
Claudia

I hope it does not die, I absolutely use it constantly!
Damien Hoffman

Me too!
Ray Smithson

the best when I want to know anything,,, support it,, merry Xmas
Damien Hoffman

I agree. I use it all the time.