[DDN] REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated

[David P. Dillard]

REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated


U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated
Despite concerns about accuracy and reliability, Wikipedia remains a
popular online source of information, as a study from the Pew Center for
American Life Project recently revealed.
by Helen Leggatt
BIZ Report
<http://www.bizreport.com/2007/04/
us_wikipedia_users_are_wealthy_and_welleducated.html>

A shorter URL for the above link:

http://tinyurl.com/2psovu


According to Pews latest survey, released this Tuesday, Wikipedia is used
by 36 percent of American adults. The size and speed of the encyclopedic
site means it is convenient, and fast, for consumers to source information
on almost any topic.

Interestingly, for a site whose content has been called in to question in
terms of accuracy and reliability, the users are well educated and earn
good salaries. Half of Wikipedia's online users were college graduates and
42 percent of users earned more than $75,000.

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"It is a testimony to the broadening reality on the Internet that people
used to be consumers of information and now they are producers of that
information,"


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The complete article may be read at the URL above.


Pew / Internet

36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia It is particularly popular
with the well-educated and current college-age students More than a third
of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated
online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the
Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter
of 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia. There has been
ongoing controversy about the reliability of articles on Wikipedia. Still,
the Pew Internet Project survey shows that Wikipedia is far more popular
among the well-educated than it is among those with lower levels of
education. For instance, 50% of those with at least a college degree
consult the site, compared with 22% of those with a high school diploma.
And 46% of those age 18 and older who are current full- or part-time
students have used Wikipedia, compared with 36% of the overall internet
population. In addition, young adults and broadband users have been among
those who are earlier adopters of Wikipedia. While 44% of those ages 18-29
use Wikipedia to look for information, just 29% of users age 50 and older
consult the site. In a similar split, 42% of home broadband users look for
information on Wikipedia, while just 26% of home dialup users do so.


The Complete Report may be read at this URL below:

<http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Wikipedia07.pdf>



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