Fund Wikimedia Foundation entered into an agreement with the Dutch center of UNU-MERIT to conduct the first comprehensive study of the audience on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Wikipedia project was started in 2001 and quickly gained popularity. Now ' Wikipedia ' contains records of approximately 200 languages , the most universal is the English section, which at the time of this writing, there were just under 2.2 million articles. For comparison, in the Russian section contains approximately 230,000 records.
Organization of UNU-MERIT, a joint research center of United Nations University and Maastricht University, will study the complex Wikipedia visitors and authors. The experts, among other things, try to analyze what types of Internet users read ' Wikipedia ', and what - will constitute. In addition, the study is expected to answer questions about what information is most often visitors are looking for an online encyclopedia, as well as why people voluntarily engaged in filling the database Wikipedia.
The study will last for the next few months. Early results of audience analysis ' Wikipedia ' Fund Wikimedia Foundation is planning to publish in the annual conference of Wikimania, which will be held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt.
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