How many Chinese users familiar with Wiki?
After Wikipedia received press attention this week, and the Chinese term for Wikipedia (維基百科) showed up in the government Foreign Ministry transcripts, someone asked me an interesting question:
How many people in China know what the Chinese word for “wiki” or “Wikipedia”? One out of ten, 1/100, 1/1000 or even less?
Given that only about 1/10 of China is on the Internet, and given about 1/10 of those are familiar with Wikipedia or Baidupedia, I’d put it at 1/100 at the absolute maximum.
For the US, I’d say that number is closer to 1/10 if not 1/5 of folks have heard of Wikipedia before. It’s gotten that popular recently.
I’d be interested to hear peoples’ guesses on these numbers.
November 20th, 2006 07:23
I tend to have a lot of contact with high school and college age people (who, I’d say, are disproportionally likely to have heard of Wikipedia). I can say that, until about 2 1/2-3 years ago, *maybe* one person in 10,000 had heard of Wikipedia. Now it’s more like 1/3, possibly 1/2.
November 20th, 2006 08:03
Certainly if you talk about students in high school or college, I think the number is very high - certainly higher than 50% and even perhaps 75%. For the average population, probably more like 1/5 or 1/4.
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