For All Its Flaws, Wikipedia is the Way Information Works Now - 0 views
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Wikipedia, which turns 10 years old this weekend, has taken a lot of heat over the years.
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But as a Pew Research report released today confirms, Wikipedia has become a crucial aspect of our online lives, and in many ways it has shown us — for better or worse — what all information online is in the process of becoming: social, distributed, interactive and (at times) chaotic.
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53 percent of American Internet users said they regularly look for information on Wikipedia, up from 36 percent of the same group the first time the research center asked the question in February of 2007
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