Comments on: Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites http://searchengineland.com/wikipedia-enters-top-ten-most-visited-sites-10536 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:49:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LeeAnn Prescott http://searchengineland.com/wikipedia-enters-top-ten-most-visited-sites-10536/comment-page-1#comment-1196 LeeAnn Prescott Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:22:52 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/wikipedia-enters-top-ten-most-visited-sites-10536.php#comment-1196 I have posted on the <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2007/02/wikipedia_traffic_sources.html" rel="nofollow"> Hitwise blog</a> that Google is now sending 166% more traffic to Wikipedia than it was a year ago. I have posted on the Hitwise blog that Google is now sending 166% more traffic to Wikipedia than it was a year ago.

]]> By: JDoorjam http://searchengineland.com/wikipedia-enters-top-ten-most-visited-sites-10536/comment-page-1#comment-1195 JDoorjam Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:34:47 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/wikipedia-enters-top-ten-most-visited-sites-10536.php#comment-1195 Two slight corrections: all of the Wikipedias are "language-specific." www.wikipedia.org contains no actual encyclopedic content, but only redirects users to the various language-specific projects. The second correction, following the logic of the first, is that the majority of U.S. traffic is probably toward en.wikipedia.org, the English-language project, not www.wikipedia.org, or at the very least is directed to en.wikipedia.org upon performing a query at the main page. The figures you cite are exciting stuff for the project! Two slight corrections: all of the Wikipedias are “language-specific.” http://www.wikipedia.org contains no actual encyclopedic content, but only redirects users to the various language-specific projects. The second correction, following the logic of the first, is that the majority of U.S. traffic is probably toward en.wikipedia.org, the English-language project, not http://www.wikipedia.org, or at the very least is directed to en.wikipedia.org upon performing a query at the main page.

The figures you cite are exciting stuff for the project!

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